{"id":35993,"date":"2019-02-13T16:15:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=35993"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:45:48","slug":"meg-tyler","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/meg-tyler\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Teaching Interests<\/h3>\n<p><span> <\/span>Lyric Poetry, Creative Writing, Survey of the Humanities: Art and Literature, Ethics<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p><span> <\/span>History of Lyric Poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Poetry in Translation, Irish Literature, Intersections between Art History and Literature, Art and Ethics<\/p>\n<h3>Select Publications<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry\u2019s Abracadabra: Essays on the Poetry of Michael Longley<\/span>, editor, forthcoming from Wake Forest University Press, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">More Feathers in the Lake Than Swans<\/span> (poetry), Finishing Line Press, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/poor-earth-web2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright wp-image-51057 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/poor-earth-web2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/poor-earth-web2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Poor Earth<\/span>, a chapbook of poems, New Women\u2019s Voices\u2019 Series, Finishing Line Press, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heane<\/span>y, Studies in Major Literary Authors Series, Routledge, July 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Co-editor, with Rosanna Warren, of two anthologies of prison poetry writing, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Springshine<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">From This Distance<\/span>, B.U. Press, 1997 and 1998.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuly and Happily Noted.\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Our Sense of Gratitude<\/span> (Festschrift for Christopher Ricks). Ed. Michael Autrey. Senex Press, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetry and the Police State,\u201d a review of Carmen Bugan\u2019s Poetry and the Language of Oppression: Essays on Politics and Poetics (OUP 2021), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Essays in Criticism<\/span>, January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The Push of the Whole Man\u2019: Heaney on Robert Lowell.\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Frontiers of Writing: A Study of <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Seamus Heaney\u2019s Prose<\/span>. Eds. Eugene O\u2019Brien and Ian Hickey, London: Routledge, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Words that the rest of us can understand, in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heaney\u2019s Mythmaking<\/span>, Eds. Ian Hickey and Ellen Howley, London: Routledge, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Plaints of Robert Lowell,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Robert Lowell in Context<\/span>. Eds. Thomas Austenfeld and Grzegorz Kosc. UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Place Apart: Sound, Silence and Play in the Poetry of Fanny Howe,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">North American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century<\/span>. Eds. Claudia Rankine, Kazim Ali and Lisa Sewall. CT: Wesleyan Press (February 2020).<\/p>\n<p>The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Poet Rosanna Warren. October 22, 2020.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/therumpus.net\/2020\/10\/the-rumpus-mini-interview-project-rosanna-warren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/therumpus.net\/2020\/10\/the-rumpus-mini-interview-project-rosanna-warren\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Select Readings and Lectures<\/h3>\n<p>Poetry Reading with William Logan, Bay State Road Poetry Series, Boston MA, December 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Reading of Seamus Heaney\u2019s Station Island (adapted by Mike Steffen) at the Cambridge Public Library, October 19, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Boston Poetry Marathon, August 2021, 2022, and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Invited Lecture, \u201cThe After-life of an Image in Seamus Heaney\u2019s Late Poetry,\u201d National Library of Ireland, Dublin, (Virtual), \u2018Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again\u2019 exhibit, April 13, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A Poets\u2019 Tribute to Michael and Edna Longley, Boston College, Burns Library. Sponsored by The Poets\u2019 Theatre. With Robert Pinsky, Greg Delanty, Suzanne Matson and others. October 7, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Beall Ball Lecturer on Contemporary Poetry for the 2019 Beall Poetry Festival, Baylor University, Waco TX, April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Boston Poets and their Predecessors: A Muster of Poets, The Poet\u2019s Theatre, Athenaeum Library, Boston MA, January 19, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Tribute to Geoffrey Hill, Introduction and Reading, The Castle, Boston University, November 10, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Invited Lecture, \u201cMichael Longley\u2019s Poetry,\u201d Queen\u2019s University Belfast, May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry Reading with Melissa Green, Poetry Centre, Suffolk University, Boston MA, March 23, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Invited Lecture, \u201c\u2019The Whole of Me A-Patter\u2019: Image, Feeling and Finding Form in Heaney\u2019s Late Work,\u201d Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen\u2019s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 2, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry Reading, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry (QUB) at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, February 18, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry Reading, Women Poets\u2019 Series, Barnard College, New York NY, Oct. 29, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry Reading with Robert Hass, Robert Lowell Memorial Series, Boston University, March 23, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Invited to lead a seminar on the Sonnets of Seamus Heaney at the Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, August 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeamus Heaney and Michael Longley\u2019s Recent Sonnets,\u201d Invited lecture, University of Vienna, June 12, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American Sonnet: from Stevens to Bidart,\u201d Invited lecture, University of Innsbruck, May 14, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State of the American Lyric in the Twenty-First Century,\u201d Invited lecture, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Faculty of Humanities: Domain English, March 15, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLost, Loosed: Some Thoughts on Rhyme in Seamus Heaney\u2019s Sonnets,\u201d Guest Speaker, Harvard University, Department of English and American Literature and Language,\u201d January 24, 2007.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Professional Activities and Awards<\/h3>\n<p>Fulbright Professor of Anglophone-Irish Literature and Writing, Queen\u2019s University, Belfast, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Fulbright Teaching\/Research Award, University of Innsbruck Visiting Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011-2012.<\/p>\n<p>Director, Poetry Reading Series at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture, Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Council Member, Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (ALSCW), 2016\u2013present.<\/p>\n<p>Review Panel for Annual Fulbright Scholar Awards, US\/UK Fulbright Commission, 2016\u2013present.<\/p>\n<p>Impact Scholar Faculty Mentor<\/p>\n<p>BU Provost\u2019s Arts Council<\/p>\n<p>Faculty Mentor, BU Fulbright Campus Committee, BU Fellowships, Office of Provost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13125,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51058,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35993\/revisions\/51058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}