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...Poet Laureate Billy Collins charmed a packed crowd at the Graduate School of Education last night, reading humorous selections from his works and mocking the conventions of poetry...
With the controversy surrounding the English Department’s re-invitation of poet Tom Paulin looming over the proceedings, last night’s Faculty meeting addressed the general issue of free speech at the University before discussing the upcoming curricular review...
...hatred? What is it that Mr. Paulin suggests we do with “useless people”? Should they too be shot and discarded like garbage on the trash-heap of history, as was done with Jews and others in concentration camps? If he is indeed a poet worth his salt, then surely he is aware of both the power and resonance of words, and, far from using them carelessly, brandishes them deliberately...
...more recent statement, published in The New York Times on Nov. 28, Paulin ostensibly offers an apology for remarks that the poet himself recognizes are “deeply offensive to all right-thinking people.” I wish that were the end of the matter. His statement, however, only clouds the issue still further. For what does he apologize? Not for “whatever was said in my lengthy exchange”—an odd disclaimer for a poet who supposedly has a way with words—but rather for the fact that...
Charles opened the pub, called Poet Laureate, in Poundbury, in the southwest of England. He has been involved in developing the area to resemble a traditional village rather than urban sprawl. Hughes does not seem like the most obvious person to inspire bonhomie: his poems were often moody meditations on the English countryside. But with any luck, the establishment will inspire patrons to pen lyric verse somewhere other than the bathroom wall...