Word: poemes
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Lily L. Brown ’04 read a poem that responded to a reading from a poetry workshop in the English Department. “Rubber Gloves for the Curators,” by Caitlin E. Barrett ’03, was inspired by her job at the Peabody Museum...
...perhaps the most striking illustration of the interaction between Harvard student poets, Anton V. Yakovlev ’03 explained that “The Instigator,” a character from his poem “Cityscape in the Summer,” was fashioned in response to the “The Charlatan,” a character in “The Treehouse Journal,” a poem written and performed by Jennifer L. Nelson...
Kevin B. Holden ’05, leaning over the podium as he introduced his reading, admitted that the task of presenting a poem live wasn’t easy...
...Pacifist”, for example, was performed as a protest against war in Iraq. “Your Revolution,” a poem originally by African American feminist Sarah Jones, was directed against what was seen as the disrespectful attitudes towards women prevalent in rap music...
...slaves to sing while working: "Bless the fields we dig and plant! / Lord! supply our ev'ry want: / Give our souls and bodies food, / And grateful hearts for ev'ry good." James Boswell took time out from finishing the "Life of Johnson" to write an excruciatingly bad (and long) poem defending slavery, "No Abolition of Slavery," a work that until now has not been republished for some 210 years...