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Archive: February 2015 (2 Posts)

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Capitol Hill Lit Report: Terrance Hayes on Liquid Modernity

Posted by: Matt Blakley

The following guest post is by Yvonne French, webmaster for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. In the latest installment of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on poetics, on January 22 in the Whittall Pavilion, poet Terrance Hayes gave a 40-minute slide-studded lecture, “Ideas of Influence: Poetry and a Poet through …

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“This is My Story”: Getting to Know Patricia Smith

Posted by: Matt Blakley

Next week, Patricia Smith will come to the Library of Congress as the 13th Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize in Poetry recipient. In advance of her opening reading for the Presidents Day Open House and her evening Prize reading, the Poetry and Literature Center conducted an e-mail interview, below: This is the second award Shoulda …