In the Spirit of Room 222
In the late 1950s, Robert Lowell led a workshop whose students included three younger writers: George Starbuck, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath. This legendary group gathered in the same small, corner classroom where our creative writing workshops continue to meet. The Robert Lowell Memorial Lectures celebrated this legacy, and the thriving community of writers, teachers and students at Boston University, by bringing a distinguished poet to campus each semester to read alongside a recent graduate of Boston University’s Creative Writing Program.
Hosted by the Favorite Poem Project, the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series was made possible due to the generous support of Fred Levin and his late wife Nancy Livingston (COM ’69). The Spring 2025 Lowell Lecture was the final event in the series.
