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Stacy Mattingly (left) and Selma Asotić (right). Asotić visited Boston University’s Pardee School on Thursday for a reading of “Reci vatra,” her first poetry book, which explores the concept of home. COURTESY OF CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EUROPE

Not ‘the poet you expect me to be’: Bilingual poet Selma Asotić explores tensions among home, language, identity

Anna Albrecht April 7, 2024
Poet Selma Asotić visited the Pardee School of Global Studies for a reading and discussion of her debut poetry collection that emerged from a cross-cultural life between Bosnia and the United States.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

What Emily Dickinson taught me

Isabella Panichi November 1, 2023
Emily’s ability to indulge her emotions are of course, rich in imagery, metaphor and color. I think at times it may feel intimidating to try to articulate the extent of your feelings. What conveys too little? What precisely conveys what I feel? Does this sound pretty enough?
kenmore classroom building

Voices of the Creative Writing Graduate Program host first in-person faculty reading since 2020

John Maniace February 13, 2023
The event featured old, new and upcoming works from BU Creative Writing faculty.
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.
race, prison, justice: illuminating story through the arts virtual gallery

New collaborative virtual gallery by the CFA Prison Arts Project encourages activism

Daily Free Press Staff April 28, 2021
The “living gallery” highlights stories U.S. incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals.
Faces of Roxbury Poetry Festival Headliners

Registration for first Roxbury Poetry Festival opens

Taylor Brokesh April 23, 2021
The free event will take place virtually, with some in person components, June 5.
prison cell block

CFA faculty explores art, activism in Prison Arts Project event

Molly Farrar April 20, 2021
As part of the Prison Arts Project, BU groups held an event about how mass incarceration affects kids.
Protestor carrying a Black Lives Matter Flag at a Mass Action Against Police Brutality Protest in Boston

Protestors demand conviction in trial of Derek Chauvin

Sam Trottenberg March 7, 2021
Dozens of protesters gathered before 1 p.m. at Peters Park two days before the trial of Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd last May.
Boston Ujima Project’s virtual “Meditations on Love with Black Cotton Club” event Sunday. The Boston City Council endorsed Ujima’s week-long “We Be Knowin’” webinar series, which began Sunday and continues through next Monday. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston Umija Project hosts virtual community assemblies

Tanisha Bhat February 16, 2021
The Boston Ujima Project kicked off its 2021 Citywide Assembly, “We Be Knowin’: A Boston Ujima Project Celebration of Everyday Democracy” Sunday — a series of cultural events and collective community planning designed to honor local communities.
Visions of Freedom, a zine created by students in Assistant Professor Ianna Hawkin Owen’s Direct Action and African American Literature course, aims to support the BIPOC community by featuring the work of Black artists. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Busywork be gone: new professor adds activism to introductory class

Chloe McKim Jepsen December 3, 2020
The new CAS seminar “Direct Action and African American Literature” differs from a typical class structure by having students design a project that supports communities of color, in line with what assistant professor Ianna Hawkins Owen said is the course theme: “Black direct action over time.”
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