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...Socolow ’59 said Ostriker “wasn’t a guy who had a telescope and spent hours looking at the stars.”Ostriker said that his most memorable class was not a science course, but a class on poetry with modernist poet Archibald MacLeish. He said he enjoyed the chance to figure out what questions to ask about the poems, a challenge he didn’t find in his science classes.In addition to his studies, Ostriker said he had “quite a bit of fun” in college...
...tooth-and-claw campaign for the poetry professorship might also be described as Darwinian. The front runner, West Indian poet and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, withdrew his candidacy four days before the poll after the resurrection of 1982 allegations that he sexually harassed a Harvard student. Appearing in the British media, those charges found their way to Oxford academics in anonymous letters. Walcott's withdrawal left two hopefuls, Padel and the Indian poet Arvind Mehrotra, to compete for the support of Oxford's senior staff and graduates, all of whom are eligible to vote for the professorship. There had been...
...asked for mine up front.' CAROL ANN DUFFY, on the 600 bottles of sherry bestowed on Britain's poet laureate. She is the first woman given that honor...
...After resigning her position as English-department head at a London college, U.A. Fanthorpe, 79, an acclaimed British poet, took a receptionist job at a neurological hospital, where she witnessed tragic stories that incited her to start writing verse...
...documenting every child killed in last May's massive earthquake in Sichuan his own. Leveraging his position as one of the country's best-known artists - he had a hand in designing the Olympic Bird's Nest stadium and is the son of China's most prominent modern poet - Ai has managed to help keep the issue of why so many schools collapsed, killing thousands of students, alive...