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...wasn't trying too hard. "We must find a path that we create together, quickly," he said. "With truth force. To seize the opportunity that lies before us." His words were simple, direct and powerful. One clue to how he found that power lies at the end of the poem, in a line Gore doesn't recite, as the poet reveals his desire "to be what I have never been ... a man all alone, walking with no road, with no mirror...
...stuff that would never make it into poetry magazines on campus,” she says.But as someone who has taken three poetry workshops in her time at Harvard and endured the rigors of the Literature concentration, Vasiliauskas is certainly not a novice writer. She has published numerous poems and some essays in both magazines she works for, and is now looking to make her voice heard in the wider world by submitting to professional publications.“I started off with the New Yorker and the Paris Review,” she says with a nervous smile...
...unusual people and they go off to do unusual things.”UNVEILING THE MYTHWeary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan explains the allure of uncommon studies through her own experiences as a teenager who was distracted by a German poem in the back of her textbook.“It becomes a sort of secret science,” Ryan says of less common fields of study, “some knowledge that you have access to that others don’t.”Head Tutor and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Folklore...
...Before the game, the loudspeaker played a recording of Nikki Giovanni's now-iconic poem from Wednesday's convocation, "We are Virginia Tech." The home team players huddled and said a prayer. The University of Miami coach presented a $10,000 check for a memorial fund. The check got a rousing applause from the crowd, but it also seemed like a preemptive apology from Miami for what turned out to be a 11-9 victory against Tech. As Robert McDaniel, one of University of Miami team managers, told me before the game, "Once the umpire says 'play ball,' you gotta...
...frequently dreary lobby of Gund Hall, an exhibition hovers between document and poem, chaos and order, microcosm and macrocosm. In “African Cities, A Photographic Survey by David Adjaye,” on display through May 23, Adjaye navigates these gentle tensions masterfully and in doing so reveals how an architect “sees” architecture and urbanism, in the several senses of the verb.Adjaye, the Graduate School of Design’s Tange visiting professor in architecture, was born in 1966 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania—just years after the country gained independence...