Poetry
Artist, Scholar Discuss Dickinson's Envelope Poems
The poems that 19th century poet Emily Dickinson wrote on envelopes were the subject of a presentation and exhibit at Houghton Library on Thursday evening.
This Week's Arts Cover: Stanislaw Baranczak
This week’s Crimson Arts cover story is about Polish poet and Harvard professor Stanislaw Baranczak. The piece focuses on Baranczak’s ...
Even When No One is Looking
Poet Stanislaw Baranczak had no desire to shoulder his country’s burden. What he wanted was to write free from the confines of communist censorship.
Now I Walk in Beauty: A Poem from Revels RiverSing
On Sunday night hundreds of people gathered near Weeks footbridge on the banks of the Charles River for the 9th annual Revels RiverSing celebration. Filled with music, poetry, and communal singing, this celebration of the fall equinox waved goodbye to summer and ushered in a new and spirited fall season. The poem below was inspired by the upbeat melodies and soaring voices of RiverSing; it is composed entirely from poetic lines and lyrics that emerged throughout the event.
Generational Memory: Echoes of the Holocaust
Writing about the Holocaust, I have realized that generational memory is an important access point to the subject matter. The writing techniques I’ve adopted follow the same principle as generational memory: that, while the Holocaust itself is hard to approach, its ripple effects are tangible.
The Ink-smudged Diaries of Adrienne Rich
You can find Rich’s archives at Schlesinger library, in the same Yard where she attended class. Her many papers and diaries, ink-smudged, doodled-on, and worn, reveal a personal evolution as radical as that of her poetics.
Excerpting Senior Writers: Erik Fredericksen '12
Fredericksen reflects on his thesis, a translation of a Latin ode, and shares his translation of Horace's Ode 3.13.
Excerpting Senior Writers: Carla Ferreira '12
Carla Ferreira reflects on her poetry thesis and shares three poems selected from her work.
