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Literature

Boston University BU, Chinese author poet Ha Jin, American Academy of Arts and Letters, College of Arts and Sciences CAS professor

Literature

Ha Jin Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

May 27, 2014

April Smith author writer, A Star for Mrs Blake book, FBI Agent Ana Grey, Lou Grant, Cagney and Lacey, historical fiction, mystery thriller fiction, crime fiction

Alumni

The Lieutenant’s Diary

May 22, 2014

Boston University Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, Paul Muldoon, Rebekah Stout

Literature

Paul Muldoon Headlines BU’s Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Tonight

April 17, 2014

Boston University BU, things to do, nightlife, The Moth Story Slam, podcast, acting, theatre, radio, music, performance art

Education

Nightlife: The Moth StorySLAM

April 10, 2014

Photo: A cross in front of a blue sky background

Religion

Are Christians the Most Persecuted Religious Group?

April 9, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, author Political scientist Thomas Berger, War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II

Science & Technology

When Nations Should, and Shouldn’t, Apologize

April 4, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, lecturer Anthony Wallace, PEN/Hemingway literary award finalist

Awards

PEN/Hemingway Finalist Will Be Honored Sunday

April 3, 2014

Boston University Creative Writing, Annual Faculty Reading

Poetry

BU’s Literary Lions Read Tonight

March 26, 2014

Boston University BU alumni, Pulitzer Winner Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

Alumni

Pulitzer Winner Jhumpa Lahiri Returns to Campus

February 19, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciencs CAS, English Department, Elmore Leonard, Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard by Charles Rzepka

Faculty

Recalling a Master of Crime Fiction

November 1, 2013

Boston University BU, Marsh Chapel, Reverand Robert Hill, The Courageous Gospel, WIPF & Stock, lectures sermons Johns gospel

Literature

Beauty and Anti-Semitism: The Gospel of John

October 15, 2013

Boston University BU, poetry literature, UROP, research,

Literature

Poetry as the Heard Word

October 10, 2013

Boston University BU alumni, Pulitzer Winner Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

Arts & Culture

Pulitzer-winning BU Alum Up for Man Booker Prize, National Book Award

October 7, 2013

Boston University BU, Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet John Ashbery, Former Robert Pinsky Global Fellow Sophie Grimes

Arts & Culture

John Ashbery Headlines Lowell Poetry Reading

October 3, 2013

Boston University BU, US poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters, Cambridge Public Library, Louisa Solano Poetry Series

Faculty

Former Poet Laureate Pinsky Designs Anthology for Aspiring Poets

October 1, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Communication COM, professor Dick Lehr, Whitey Bulger

Arts & Culture

“Whitey”: The Story of a Monster

February 21, 2013

Boston University BU, Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes, Ani Gjika,

Alumni

Poems That Invoke Cultural Figures, from Harriet Tubman to Dr. Seuss

February 20, 2013

The Feminine Mystique book by author Betty Friedan, 50th anniversary of Feminine Mystique

Literature

Friedan’s Feminine Mystique Turns 50

February 12, 2013

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

History

Machiavelli’s The Prince: Still Relevant after All These Years

February 6, 2013

Carrie Preston, associate professor of English, Boston University, Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance book, Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and the Pedagogies of Transnational Performance book

University News

Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street

January 29, 2013

Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street