Kay Ryan’s “Graduation Garland,” Derek Bok on Fixing American Democracy
Poet and orator highlight Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises.
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Literary Life
Angell, Hochschild, Seeger, Seidel Honored
Alumni recognized by American Academy of Arts and Letters
5.18.12
Harvard Poets, by Ear
Showcasing works from the past century-plus
4.30.12
Harvard Portrait: Amanda Claybaugh
Meet the expert on nineteenth-century novels and reformist writings.
4.19.12
Greenblatt, Smith Honored with Pulitzer Prizes
The professor wins for general nonfiction, the 1994 alumna for poetry; two former Nieman Fellows also honored.
4.16.12
Two-Term President, Two-Time Poet Laureate
Derek Bok and Kay Ryan featured at the 2012 Phi Beta Kappa exercises
3.20.12
Cold Meets Flame
The prophet (Gibran) and the president (Eliot), plus Arnoldia turns 100.
2.17.12
Chapter and Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
2.17.12
Tiny Brontës
Miniature manuscript books by Charlotte Brontë
12.16.11
Wanderers from Sirius
Katrina Roberts’s poems suggest that life springs from stardust.
12.16.11
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
12.16.11
“In the Bee-Loud Glade”
The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café in Boulder, Colorado, sells beverages, pastries, and poetry—nothing else.
10.19.11
Andy Borowitz Loosens Up the Library of America
A new anthology of humorous writing joins the shelf of illustrious literary classics.
9.8.11
Fakery and Shakespeare
A con man, his son, and a fiction on two levels
6.16.11
On “Inspiration” and an Ohio Swimming Hole
Orator Joyce Carol Oates and poet Henri Cole at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises