Content tagged "poetry"
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Poetry Across Borders
As part of MIT’s Day of Action/Day of Engagement, come share poems from cultures beyond the US.
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Poetry Reading: Kathleen Ossip
Kathleen Ossip is a 2016-2017 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and is the editor of the poetry review website SCOUT.
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Poetry Reading: Martha Collins and Fred Marchant
Collins is founder of the creative writing program at UMass-Boston. Marchant is emeritus co-director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center.
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Poetry Reading: William Corbett
Corbett taught writing at MIT for 22 years. Granary Books recently published his collaboration with painter Rackstraw Downes, I Rode with the Cossacks.
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The Sinatra n
“The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing triggered the poems in The Sinatra n, poems that race across these pages with lethal riptide quickness.”
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MIT Open House, with CMS/W Events
On April 23, 2016, MIT hosts a campus-wide open house, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute’s work.
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Poetry Reading: Soren Stockman & Tanya Liu
Soren Stockman works at the NYU Creative Writing Program. Tanya Liu is a recent recipient of the Lucille Clifton Scholarship for the Poetry Program at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers
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Christian Bök reads from The Xenotext: Book 1
“The first work on ‘living poetry’ in the world, by the author of the bestselling book Eunoia.”
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Poetry Reading: Donald Berger
“Donald Berger’s cosmic spaces and ‘long times’ have a way of abruptly, breathtakingly concentrating themselves in a single, exclamatory revelation.” – John Ashbery
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Poetry Reading: Lynette Reini-Grandell
Lynette Reini-Grandell is the author of Approaching the Gate (Holy Cow! Press, 2014), which won the 2015 Northeastern Minnesota book Award for Poetry.
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“Here We Are”: Poem for the dedication of the MIT Memorial to Officer Sean Collier
Authored by Erica Funkhouser, Lecturer with Comparative Media Studies/Writing, and performed by Funkhouser and students from the classes of 2015 and 2016.
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The Week at @cmsw_mit: 1/9/15
And have you submitted your paper for May’s Media in Transition conference? Now’s your chance!
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New Year’s poem for 2015, “The Era Canto”
Nick Montfort: “I’ve written a New Year’s Poem each year this millennium. This one is a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program.”
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A Conversation with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
In this wide-ranging conversation, the former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will discuss his collaboration on an opera with Tod Machover of the Media Lab.
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“The Bill Bash”: On the Occasion of William Corbett’s Retirement
Honoring the career and work of poet and retiring MIT lecturer Bill Corbett.
