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Poetry

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

Haikus from BU Poets Celebrate Spring

April 1, 2025

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Campus Life

It Looked Like the Apocalypse: Drone Video Captured How COVID Emptied BU Campuses

March 12, 2025

Photo: A black and white composite image of three poets: Maggie Dietz, Carl Phllips, and Erin Belieu.

Poetry

Final Lowell Poetry Reading to Feature Three Distinguished BU Poets

March 3, 2025

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POETRY

Calling All Poets: BU Today Wants Your Haikus

February 14, 2025

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Arts & Culture

Pulitzer-Winning Poet Philip Schultz to Deliver Spring 2024 Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture March 7

March 5, 2024

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Things-to-do

The Weekender: March 7 to 10

March 5, 2024

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Poetry

A Poem for the Year Our 2023 Souvenir

December 15, 2023

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Arts & Culture

Tangled Up in Bob Dylan for 15 Years at BU

December 14, 2023

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Poetry

Major Jackson, Award-Winning Poet and Host of The Slowdown Podcast, Reads from New Collection at Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Tonight

September 27, 2023

Photo: Poet Robert Pinsky, a white man with a full head of gray hair, stands at a mic with a black button down as he reads his poetry. A single spotlight illuminates him.

Arts & Culture

Poetry, Jazz, and BU’s Robert Pinsky Headline at WBUR’s CitySpace Saturday

September 6, 2023

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Poetry

Award-Winning Poet John Murillo to Headline Spring 2023 Lowell Poetry Reading

March 29, 2023

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Poetry

BU Poet Karl Kirchwey Reflects on the Center for Computing & Data Sciences Building

December 5, 2022

Books

Pulitzer Prize Winner and Former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Headlines Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Tuesday

April 11, 2022

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Arts & Culture

Poems of Healing for These Troubled Times

April 8, 2021

Arts & Culture

Two Poets, Drawn by History, Headline Thursday’s Lowell Poetry Reading

February 18, 2021

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Arts & Culture

Video: Celebrity Chef Jacques Pépin (Hon.’11) Shares His Favorite Poem

November 30, 2020

Composite image: on the left, a close-up portrait of poet Natasha Trethewey, her bangs sway to the right over her eyes, photo by Matt Valentine; on the right, the book cover for "Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir" by Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize Winner. On the cover, a sepia photo of Trethewey's mother holding her as a young baby.

Poetry

Pulitzer Prize Winner Natasha Trethewey to Lead Thursday’s Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

October 15, 2020

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Arts & Culture

“Wandering Poet” Naomi Shihab Nye Headlines Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

November 5, 2019

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Poetry

Poet Mark Halliday Headlines Lowell Poetry Reading Thursday

April 10, 2019

Tupac Shakur

Classes

A Class That Explores the Gospel According to Tupac Shakur

February 27, 2019

A Class That Explores the Gospel According to Tupac Shakur

One Class, One Day

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