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...that are simply not available in straight narrative discourse,” says Preceptor in Expository Writing Kate Chadbourne. Though Chadbourne’s affiliation with Harvard is primarily that of an Expos teacher, her work extends into numerous other fields. She is a teacher of modern Irish, a poet, a folklorist, a musician who plays the piano, the flute, and the harp, and, most of all, a storyteller—a medium in which all of her other interests and talents come to fruition. Born in Saco, Maine to a nurse and a fisherman, Chadbourne always loved...
...this is a dangerous vision for a poet. Wright forgets that poetry’s virtue—its saving grace—is particularity. Readers can access poetry’s meaning only through the nuances of the text, through the heft and rhythm of a single word...
...poem about writing, “Publication Date,” is full of slapstick desperation. The pacing poet is waiting for his latest book to come out, and he expects the worst. The narrator declares early on that it’s “National I Hate Myself and Want to Die Day,” a phrase that is very funny in the context of the poem, although it jars with the serious preoccupations of the rest of the volume...
...years old, was the first major jazz artist to set lyrics to recorded instrumental improvisations. According to David Berger, a faculty member at the Julliard School of Music, Hendricks’ innovation has value far beyond imitative glitter. “He’s the poet laureate of jazz,” Berger said. “His lyrics get right back to the whole history of what everything is talking about. Nobody writes lyrics on the very deep level that he writes them.”Hendricks and the student musicians are particularly excited about the music they...
...former San Francisco poet laureate and beat generation writer attracted an “overwhelming” crowd hoping to attend and hear him read poetry last night. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti received the New England Poetry Club’s (NEPC) annual Golden Rose prize and read his work to a packed Yenching Auditorium audience in an event co-sponsored by the NEPC and Harvard’s Signet Society. NEPC president Diana Der-Hovanessian called Ferlinghetti “a vital voice” and an “American conscience” as she awarded him the Golden...