Notable 2011 lectures and events recap: Kay Ryan
With 2011 behind us, we’re looking back on some of the distinguished visitors to the Boston University campus.
The Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture, which pairs a poet with a recent graduate of the Creative Writing Program, welcomed former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Kay Ryan and alumna Katherine Hollander (GRS’06, ’14), introduced by three-time U.S. poet laureate and BU professor Robert Pinsky, on April 25:
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