Archive: January 2015 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Robert Casper; (Year) 2015; (Month) January

Muriel Rukeyser and the Spanish Civil War

January 8, 2015

The following is a cross-post from the Insights: Scholarly Work at the John W. Kluge Center, from Program Specialist Jason Steinhauer. Poet and biographer Muriel Rukeyser documented and commented on the seismic events of the 20th century. In her five decades of writing, she captured her experiences as witness to racial inequality in America, the …

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Remembering Our Friends

January 6, 2015

Posted by: Robert Casper

Last week, to mark the end of 2014, I wrote about the passing of two Poets Laureate. This week I’d like to look ahead to the year-to-come–specifically, to our growing community of friends. To do this, I have to turn to the past. The Poetry and Literature Center, and the Poet Laureate position, would not …

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Refined by: (Author) Robert Casper; (Year) 2015; (Month) January