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Grand Rapids poet laureate to lead lecture on activism

On April 11, visitors to the Grand Rapids Public Library's downtown location can attend Poetry as Activism, a free lecture ...
Brattleboro Reformer

First Wednesday Lecture features poems from "Boneyarn," poetry collection on slavery

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — The oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located in the shadow of Wall Street. Actor and poet David Mills will read ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Area Briefs: Pulitzer-winning poet to lecture a UMass

Carl Phillips, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and alumnus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will return to his alma ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Poetry Scholar Uses Jefferson Lecture to Tout the Importance of the Arts in Education

A humanities education should focus on language, literature, and the arts, not on history and philosophy, said the Harvard University professor Helen Vendler, who delivered the annual Jefferson ...