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The Arts
February 17, 2015 | 04:23 pm

Late Poet Laureate helped celebrate Plutzik Centennial

From the archives: Philip Levine, former poet laureate of the United States, was a keynote guest when the Department of English’s Plutzik Reading Series celebrated its centennial in 2012. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet died Sunday at the age of 87.

topics: announcements, poetry, School of Arts and Sciences,
John Gower and bow and arrow
The Arts
June 13, 2014 | 07:28 pm

Move over, Chaucer, these days poet John Gower is all the rage

During the 3rd International Congress of the John Gower Society, scholars will explore the life and work of Gower, a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, and one of the major poets during the reign of Richard II.

topics: events, poetry, Russell Peck, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
November 7, 2012 | 08:52 pm

Poet Jennifer Grotz Receives Lillian Fairchild Award

Grotz’s second selection of poems, The Needle, “is one of the most affecting poetic explorations of locale and loss that I know,” says English department chair John Michael.

topics: Jennifer Grotz, Lillian Fairchild Award, poetry,