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Wilfred Owen and Donald Rumsfeld have next to nothing in common, but Owen’s most important poem and Rumsfeld’s most important Senate testimony Friday share the same controlling nuance...
...leading figure among the “War Poets” of the World War I era, the battle-scarred Owen wrote of the hollowness of war, set against the promises of glory told to the young. His poem about the victim of a gas attack in the trenches ends in an arresting stanza...
...Boston’s own The Perceptionists, featuring Mr Lif, Akrobatik and DJ Fakts One, who tore through unreleased political tracks (“Where are the weapons of mass destruction?” goes the chorus of one surprisingly catchy track) as well as an extended praise poem to the New England Patriots. Shock G, founding member of Digital Underground provided a bridge between the acts, guesting with The Perceptionists and playing his own cover of Tupac’s “I Get Around” as well as backing up Murs throughout his set. Shock emerged...
Gail Gustafson, of Harvard Design School, found the Thomas Hardy poem conveniently located adjacent to her bench an agreeable surprise. “I didn’t know what it was—I thought it was a sign for fertilizer or something,” she says, gazing at the scullers gawkily rowing up the river. “I enjoyed reading...
Jason W. Ravin of the Harvard Bookstore says the show “did make me want to read the magazine.” During the show, Peter, of the one-man band Poem Adept, plays several songs he had composed by putting the words of his finds to music, including one entitled “The Booty Don’t Stop,” adapted from a cassette tape of homespun rap tunes found by a reader...