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Summers’ relationship with New came under scrutiny after the English Department cancelled a controversial November 2002 lecture that was slated to be given by Irish poet Tom Paulin...
...upbringing foreshadowed his landing in a political prison. His English-speaking father interrogated captured American G.I.s during the Korean War, and as a teenager two decades later, Zheng led his middle school's Communist Youth League. Only when the reform era hit China in the 1980s did the aspiring poet have what his family calls an "awakening." China's leaders were corrupt and tyrannical, he said, and he would fight them with words. Yet despite the provocative title of his self-published 2002 collection of poems, The Era of Brainwashing, his work went mostly unnoticed. If not for the Internet...
Thursday, Oct. 6. “Life of David.” Former U.S poet laureate Robert Pinsky discusses his new book on the biblical king. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Hillel, Beren Hall...
...words of MY favorite poet, Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi þor Birgisson: “[Long, drawn-out silence. Very drawn-out.]” What does it mean to be a poet, or, better yet, what is prose poetry? Is this it? Nope, because I can’t write good, and that’s got to be a part...
...musical expression under Shari'a law - has also been bloody: he was injured by a knife-wielding Islamic militant in 1994. Salim invited Jal to collaborate with him on Ceasefire - 10 songs that reach across their religious, cultural and age divides. On Lemon Bara, Salim sings like a poet of "tears that water the drought," while Jal rides the percussion of Aiwa with the rap, "If you got love, you got the victory." Together on Ya Salam, they greet Sudan's fragile new peace as a time to draw breath. Sung in the many tongues of Africa, wedding ancient rhythms...