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Winthrop House Co-Master Cynthia Rosenberger read the Robert Frost poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” which she said was appropriate for remembering a tragically short life...
...Let’s hear a poem...
...decision to re-invite poet Tom Paulin to Harvard is its representing that decision as a stand for freedom of speech. As a poet and a public agitator against Israel, Paulin has always enjoyed complete freedom of speech. He was free to publish and publicize his poem about a Palestinian child who, he alleges, was “gunned down by the Zionist SS” (the boy in question was probably killed by a Palestinian bullet and mendaciously turned into a poster-child of the Intifada). Paulin was free to to boast, “I never believed that...
Professor of English and American Literature and Language Nicholas Watson, who said he abstained from the departmental vote to renew its invitation to Paulin but respects the decision, analyzed James Kirkup’s poem “The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name...
Watson said the poem, which describes a homosexual encounter between a Roman soldier and Jesus Christ right after his crucifixion, is outlawed in England...