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...support they saw in the crowd. “We all have our differences, but what ultimately comes down from this is that we must move forward as humans,” said Harvard Dharma co-President Ameya A. Velingker ’10, who also read a poem in Hindi during the vigil. “We are first part of humanity, not Muslims, Hindus, Indians, Pakistanis. I think that’s what this highlighted...
...like a member of the special forces, who goes into enemy territory to carry out existential maneuvers.” Lewis discussed how her own personal bouts of depression shaped her poetry. She pointed to “A Hospital Odyssey,” the epic poem that she is working on for her Institute project, as an investigation of the difficult territories into which writers sometimes venture. The epic is based on her experiences as a wife whose spouse was diagnosed with cancer. While caring for her husband, Leighton, in a Wales hospital, Lewis spent long periods of time...
...first effort at writing verse, but it was the first time I tried to write a long, narrative, epic poem. I somehow decided that doing a book of rhyming couplets would sort of drone on after a while, so I decided to interrupt it with what we're calling "embedded poems." Some of those - maybe about half - are poems that appeared in The Nation. The whole narrative poem is published for the first time in the book...
...concluded the night with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Manfred Symphony Op. 58,” a work inspired by the poem by English Romantic writer Lord Byron. The lush sound of the orchestra and driving pulse of the four movements created a stronger sense of cohesion in the piece than in the Brahms...
Adams compared the student performers to the subjects of Whitman’s poem...