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Robert Pinsky, the founder of the Favorite Poem Project, speaks to an audience prior to poetry readings. COURTESY OF LAURA MARRIS

Favorite Poem Project heads to BU, creates community over poetry

Mary Katherine Moore September 27, 2018
Professors and students filled the George Sherman Union’s Conference Auditorium to embrace poetry and participate in the Favorite Poem Project. The project has been running for two decades now, encouraging more Americans to embrace the “vocal art.”
Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate Rita Dove looks into the distance as reads her poetry to a crowded room in Mugar Library. PHOTO BY CAROLYN KOMATSOULIS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Pulitzer-winning poet Rita Dove recites poetry at BU

Ben Rabin October 7, 2016

Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center hosted this fall’s Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Thursday evening, a biannual affair that invites renowned poets from across the...

BU launches online courses, slates 5 to debut by 2015

Stephanie Pagones October 2, 2014

Boston University rolled out two Massive Open Online Courses in September and will offer three additional MOOCs this academic year, providing any student with access to the Internet a free, quality education...

Robert Pinsky recites from his new book, Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters, during a discussion at the Boston University Barnes and Noble Wednesday. PHOTO BY BETSEY GOLDWASSER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Robert Pinsky hosts panel to discuss new anthology, master poets

Will Tentindo September 25, 2014

Poet Robert Pinsky and a panel of members of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts program visited Barnes & Noble at BU Wednesday to showcase Pinsky’s latest anthology, answer questions from...

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