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Morris Gray Poetry Reading Featuring Jane Miller

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Miller is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including the National Poetry Series selection The Greater Leisures (1983), Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected Poems (1996), the book-length poem A Palace of Pearls (2005), and the forthcoming...

Morris Gray Poetry Reading with Tina Chang

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The Harvard Department of English presents the Morris Gray Poetry Reading featuring Tina Chang. Join us at 6pm in the Thompson Room at 12 Quincy St. on Monday, November 3rd for a poetry reading from the author's forthcoming collection, Lion , followed by...

Morris Gray Poetry Reading with Natalie Diaz and Shane McCrae

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The Harvard Department of English presents the Morris Gray Poetry Reading featuring Natalie Diaz and Shane McCrae. Join us at 6pm in the Thompson Room at 12 Quincy St. for a poetry reading and Q and A from the authors with an introduction by Professor...

Stratis Haviaras Poetry Reading with Sherwin Bitsui and Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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The Harvard Department of English presents the Stratis Haviaras Poetry Reading with Sherwin Bitsui and Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Join us at 6pm in the Thompson Room at 12 Quincy St. for a poetry reading and Q and A from the authors with an introduction by...

Tracy K. Smith's Poetry Collection Included on Harvard Crimson Must-Read List

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The Harvard Crimson recently featured a list of works from eight must-read female poets, including Tracy K. Smith's "Life on Mars." A description of the poetry collection is included below: "A former U.S. poet laureate and current professor at Harvard...

Morris Gray Poetry Reading with January Gill O’Neil and Juliana Spahr

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The Harvard Department of English presents the Morris Gray Poetry Reading featuring January Gill O’Neil and Juliana Spahr. Join us at 6pm in the Thompson Room at 12 Quincy St. on Tuesday April 28th for a poetry reading and Q and A from the poets with an...

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Morris Gray Poetry Reading with Brenda Shaughnessy and Kevin Young

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Brenda Shaughnessy is the Okinawan-Irish American author of seven poetry collections, including Tanya (Knopf, 2023) The Octopus Museum (a New York Times 2019 Notable Book,) and Liquid Flesh: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, U.K.) Recipient of awards from...

Stratis Haviaras Poetry Reading featuring Dan Chiasson

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Poet and critic Dan Chiasson is the author of five books of poetry: “The Afterlife of Objects” (2002), “Natural History” (2005), “Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon” (2010), “Bicentennial” (2014), and” Must We Mean What We Say: A Poem in Four Phases”...

Morris Gray Poetry Reading featuring Frank Bidart

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Frank Bidart is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Half-Light: Collected Poems (2017), Metaphysical Dog, which won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His other books include...

Out of Sri Lanka: A Poetry Reading and Book Launch

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In 2009, near the end of the Sri Lankan civil war—between the LTTE demanding a separate Tamil homeland, and the government—innocent civilians were used as a human shield by one side, and taken as identical with terrorists by the other. They were shelled...

Stratis Haviaras Poetry Reading Featured in The Harvard Crimson

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"On the evening of April 16, the tick of the towering grandfather clock in the Thompson Room of Harvard’s Barker Center provided a rhythm for two voices; two poets, Sherwin Bitsui and Rowan Ricardo Phillips, took turns on the podium performing their poems...