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When he describes the qualities that a successor needs-"loving poetry and having passion for it"--Haviaras reveals the love for the written word that has defined his life as a poet and curator...
...very elegant and eloquent extension of Harvard University in the field of letters," Shinagel says. "The quality of the work, the people who are invited to participate, in particular in the issues that are dedicated to a major poet: that's very much Stratis' work...
...rivers. In his overboard essay on Huck and Jim, Leslie Fiedler wrote that the river supports "the American dream of isolation afloat." Out of that isolation in motion comes every inspiration, from contemplation (Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers") to adventure (Hemingway's stories) to despair. The poet John Berryman looked down into the Mississippi and jumped to his death. The river is expanse, but it is also loneliness; Huck finds a loving relationship with Jim, but he is alone in his moral predicament. The American rivers show us a country equally capable of generosity and advancement...
...bombers named for girls, we burned/The cities we had learned about in school" is how the poet Randall Jarrell remembered World War II. Paul Tibbets, the man who piloted the Enola Gay, the B-29 that incinerated Hiroshima, is more prosaic: "There was no city, there was nothing but the fringes of where the city used...
After honoring faculty members and inducting honorary members into PBK, the audience was treated to performances by the Racliffe Choral Society and the poet Heather McHugh '70, who received an honorary degree...