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East to West: Nov. 2, 2021

East to West: Nov. 2, 2021

Veronica Thompson November 2, 2021

Happy Election Day! Today on East to West, we cover Halloween festivities around campus, the kickstart of BU’s poetry reading series, BU StuGov and BIG hosting the Boston mayoral forum and more. Click...

Boston University professor Christopher Ricks recites William Barnes’ poem “The Hill-Shade” at the BU Poetry Reading Series lecture Tuesday night before discussing the distinct merits of both poetry and prose. COURTESY OF BU POETRY READING SERIES

BU’s Poetry Reading Series kickstarts Fall 2021 with former Oxford professor Christopher Ricks

Metta Santoso October 28, 2021
Ricks presented the lecture “The Best Words in the Best Order” on Tuesday.
Zachary Bos, the editor of New England Review of Books, speaks during Pub Con at BU on Sunday morning. PHOTO BY FELIX PHILLIPS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU hosts weekend conference for aspiring student writers, publishers

Armand Manoukian March 18, 2018
Boston University’s BookLab hosted this year’s Northeast Student PubCon, a student-led conference meant to advise aspiring writers and editors on the ins and outs of the publishing industry.
Professor Christopher Ricks of the Editorial Institute at BU is a long-time scholar of Bob Dylan’s work. PHOTO BY SHANE FU/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU professors sport long history of studying Bob Dylan

Shannon Larson October 20, 2016

Long before the Swedish Academy awarded Bob Dylan with the Nobel Prize in Literature, scholars at Boston University, especially Editorial Institute professor Christopher Ricks, had been studying and...

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