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<title>edX | BUx: The Art of Poetry: ARPO222x About Video</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Art of Poetry

The art of poetry gives pleasure and invites knowledge. This course is based on a conviction that the more you know about an art, the more pleasure you will find in it.

Register for the Art of Poetry from Boston University at https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-arpo222x-art-poetry-1565

About this Course

Poetry lives in any readerâ€™s voice, not necessarily in performance by the poet or a trained actor. The pleasure of actually saying a poem, or even saying it in your imaginationâ€”your mindâ€™s earâ€”is essential. That is a central idea of â€œThe Art of Poetry,â€ well demonstrated by the videos at favoritepoem.org: the photographer saying Sylvia Plathâ€™s â€œNick and the Candlestick,â€ the high school student saying Langston Hughesâ€™ â€œMinstrel Man.â€ Those readers base what they say about each poem upon their experience of saying it.

The course is demanding, and based on a certain kind of intense, exigent reading, requiring prolongedâ€” in fact, repeatedâ€” attention to specific poems.

The readings will include historical poems, as well as contemporary work. The focus will be on elements of the art such as poetryâ€™s historical relation to courtship; techniques of sound in free verse; poetryâ€™s relation to music; the nature of greatnessâ€”with only incidental attention to schools of poetry, categories and trends.

Students are encouraged to think truly, carefully and passionately about what the poem says, along with how the poem feels in oneâ€™s own, actual or imagined voice. As Robert Pinsky says, in the Preface to Singing School: â€œthis anthology will succeed if it encourages the reader to emulate it by replacing it . . . create your own anthology.â€ In a comparable way, this course hopes to inspire a lifelong study of poetry.]]></description>
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<title>PoemJazz: &quot;His Excuse for Loving,&quot; by Ben Jonson</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:56:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From Robert Pinsky's MOOC, "The Art of Poetry." Week 6: Music & Poetry. "His Excuse for Loving," by Ben Jonson. PoemJazz performed by Robert Pinsky, Laurence Hobgood, Stan Strickland, and John Lockwood.

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<title>edX | BUx: War for the Greater Middle East: INTL301x: About Video</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:26:44 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[War for the Greater Middle East

Military historian Andrew Bacevich recounts the failed U.S. military effort over several decades to "fix" the Islamic world, explaining what 
went wrong and why.

Register for War for the Greater Middle East from Boston University at https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-intl301x-war-greater-middle-east-1556

About this Course

Over thirty years ago, confident in the superiority of American military power, the United States set out to "fix" the Greater Middle East. Since that time, U.S. troops, covert operatives and proxies have engaged in costly exertions in predominantly Muslim societies everywhere from the Levant and the Persian Gulf to East Africa and Central Asia. With what result? Washington's efforts have exacted a terrible toll, squandering vast amounts of blood and treasure. In the meantime, the Islamic world has become less stable while anti-American radicalism flourishes. Americaâ€™s War for the Greater Middle East has failed, and that failure is irreversible.

This course offers a history of that war. It identifies the factors that inspired the United States to launch the conflict and to persist in a doomed enterprise. It describes how the war unfolded from one phase to the next, from the era of Jimmy Carter to the age of Barack Obama. It catalogs errors of judgment and implementation made along the way. It invites students to consider alternative approaches to policy that might have better served the interests of the United States and of the people living in countries invaded, occupied, bombed and otherwise subjected to American punishment.]]></description>
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<title>PoemJazz: &quot;Antique,&quot; by Robert Pinsky</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:58:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From Robert Pinsky's MOOC, "The Art of Poetry." Week 6: Music & Poetry. "Antique," by Robert Pinsky. PoemJazz performed by Robert Pinsky, Laurence Hobgood, Stan Strickland, and John Lockwood.

The Art of Poetry | edX
https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-arpo222x-art-poetry-1565]]></description>
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<title>PoemJazz: Spontaneous and Reactive</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:45:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From Robert Pinsky's MOOC, "The Art of Poetry." Week 6: Music & Poetry. Q & A: Spontaneous and Reactive. Robert Pinsky, Laurence Hobgood, Stan Strickland, and John Lockwood discuss their experience performing PoemJazz.

The Art of Poetry | edX
https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-arpo222x-art-poetry-1565]]></description>
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<title>PoemJazz: Scatting and Basketball</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:07:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From Robert Pinsky's MOOC, "The Art of Poetry." Week 6: Music & Poetry. Q & A: Scatting and Basketball. Robert Pinsky, Laurence Hobgood, Stan Strickland, and John Lockwood discuss their experience performing PoemJazz.

The Art of Poetry | edX
https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-arpo222x-art-poetry-1565]]></description>
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<title>PoemJazz: &quot;The Hearts,&quot; by Robert Pinsky</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:03:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From Robert Pinsky's MOOC, "The Art of Poetry." Week 6: Music & Poetry. "The Hearts," by Robert Pinsky. PoemJazz performed by Robert Pinsky, Laurence Hobgood, Stan Strickland, and John Lockwood.

The Art of Poetry | edX
https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-arpo222x-art-poetry-1565]]></description>
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<title>PoemJazz: &quot;Samurai Song,&quot; by Robert Pinsky</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:02:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From Robert Pinsky's MOOC, "The Art of Poetry." Week 6: Music & Poetry. "Samurai Song," by Robert Pinsky. PoemJazz performed by Robert Pinsky, Laurence Hobgood, Stan Strickland, and John Lockwood.

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<title>PoemJazz: &quot;Street Music,&quot; by Robert Pinsky</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:02:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From Robert Pinsky's MOOC, "The Art of Poetry." Week 6: Music & Poetry. "Street Music," by Robert Pinsky. PoemJazz performed by Robert Pinsky, Laurence Hobgood, Stan Strickland, and John Lockwood.

The Art of Poetry | edX
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<title>PoemJazz: &quot;Ginza Samba,&quot; by Robert Pinsky</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From Robert Pinsky's MOOC, "The Art of Poetry." Week 6: Music & Poetry. "Ginza Samba," by Robert Pinsky. PoemJazz performed by Robert Pinsky, Laurence Hobgood, Stan Strickland, and John Lockwood.

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