The beaming smile and laughter-creased face of Elizabeth Wojtusik on the Favorite Poem Project website tells it all. Undeniable emotion emanates even more as the Humarock, Mass., teaching consultant ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Poet Judith Adams, a Humanities Washington speaker and Whidbey Island resident, will present “A Fierce Language: Falling in Love with Poetry” at the Jefferson County Historical Society ...

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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 ...

Want to hear a surefire way to get 95 percent of readers to stop paying attention to your article? Just write the following: This is an article about poetry lectures. Yes, not just (shudder) poetry, ...

During his Presidential Faculty Award Lecture, titled “Dwelling in a World of Poetry,” Professor of Islamic Humanities, History and Religious Studies Shahzad Bashir spoke Monday afternoon about the ...

With the COVID-19 death toll beyond half a million, the U.S. is in a state of grief. Families mourn for loved ones who have passed, just as communities throughout the country stir with grief after ...

Poetry by contemporary Southern writers was the topic of USC Aiken’s latest “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Dr. Tom Mack, distinguished professor emeritus, and Andrew Geyer, ...

• Dario Robleto visits UC Davis next week to give an illustrated lecture, “Some Longings Survive Death,” about the integration of sound elements into his sculptural art — in particular his work for ...

The intersection between poetry and peace will be the focus of two events featuring award-winning poet Fred Marchant on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 22, and 23, through the A.J. Muste Memorial Lecture ...

Frederick C. Packard Jr., assistant professor of Public Speaking and Raphael Demos, professor of Philosophy will give talks on poetry this afternoon and evening at the Poetry Room of Widener Library.

Helen Vendler, a prolific poetry critic and literature professor at Harvard University, will deliver the 2004 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced ...