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...women and the violent division of the Indian subcontinent following the end of British rule in 1947; in New Delhi. Born to a Sikh family in what is now Pakistan, Pritam fled to India during the country's partition?a brutal period that she described in her most famous poem, Ode to Waris Shah...
...creation of new genders has become a hobby for those on the fringe. Consider Kit Yan, a “gender queer” Hawaiian poet who will be performing tonight at BGLTSA’s invitation. In one poem, after rolling through several dozen “genders”—including appellations like “polyamorous,” “heteroflexible,” and “boydyke”—Yan solemnly declares, “and that’s just the beginning...There may be as many...
Abhinand Lath recalls being particularly moved by a poem by an 11th century Japanese woman who described strolling through a young bamboo forest so delicate that her movements caused the stalks and their shadows to change colors. Bamboo happened to be the topic of Lath's master's thesis in architecture at the University of Michigan. Yet the poem, and the idea of colors subtly changing through variances in movement and light, stuck with...
...poem begins with someone discussing how to make cocaine in a bathtub and ends with Shakespeare. In “The Life of a Hunter,” her first poetry collection, M. Michelle Robinson ’01 juxtaposes detective novel slang and modern art, literary references and questions inspired by computer science. Robinson, also a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, is now working towards her Ph.D. in American studies at Boston University. But many of the poems in her book were written in the Harvard creative writing classes Robinson took as a graduate and undergraduate. Boylston Professor...
...past board members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) said that over the summer, Summers told the group that he would narrate the tribute to Lincoln, which was written by Copland in 1942. The group had previously planned to perform Italian composer Ottorino Respighi’s 1924 tone poem “Pines of Rome” at its Oct. 29 concert, but HRO altered its plans after Summers said he would narrate the Copland composition. More than a month before the concert, in mid-September, Summers told HRO leaders that he would not participate...