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Poetry

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

Haikus from BU Poets Celebrate Spring

April 1, 2025

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Campus Life

It Looked Like the Apocalypse: Drone Video Captured How COVID Emptied BU Campuses

March 12, 2025

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Poetry

Final Lowell Poetry Reading to Feature Three Distinguished BU Poets

March 3, 2025

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POETRY

Calling All Poets: BU Today Wants Your Haikus

February 14, 2025

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Arts & Culture

Pulitzer-Winning Poet Philip Schultz to Deliver Spring 2024 Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture March 7

March 5, 2024

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Things-to-do

The Weekender: March 7 to 10

March 5, 2024

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Poetry

A Poem for the Year Our 2023 Souvenir

December 15, 2023

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Arts & Culture

Tangled Up in Bob Dylan for 15 Years at BU

December 14, 2023

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LGBTQ+

Don’t Say Gay: Three Alumni Authors Speak Out on LGBTQ Book Bans

November 16, 2023

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Books

Reading List: Baseball, Rock ’n’ Roll, Murder, and Intrigue

November 16, 2023

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Poetry

Major Jackson, Award-Winning Poet and Host of The Slowdown Podcast, Reads from New Collection at Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Tonight

September 27, 2023

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Arts & Culture

Poetry, Jazz, and BU’s Robert Pinsky Headline at WBUR’s CitySpace Saturday

September 6, 2023

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Poetry

Award-Winning Poet John Murillo to Headline Spring 2023 Lowell Poetry Reading

March 29, 2023

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Books

Reading List Winter–Spring 2023: New fiction, short stories, poetry, and a memoir by actor Geena Davis (CFA’79, Hon.’99)

March 27, 2023

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Poetry

BU Poet Karl Kirchwey Reflects on the Center for Computing & Data Sciences Building

December 5, 2022

Collage: 12 Book covers arranged in two rows of six. Top row covers: "BUILD ME A CITY: SECRETS, LIES, AND LOVE IN BARON HAUSSMANN'S PARIS", "CLASSIC BASEBALL: TIMELESS TALES, IMMORTAL MOMENTS", "DELIBERATELY DIVIDED: INSIDE THE CONTROVERSIAL STUDY OF TWINS AND TRIPLETS ADOPTED APART", "THE DIAMOND EYE", "GIRL IN ICE", and "HEALING: OUR PATH FROM MENTAL ILLNESS TO MENTAL HEALTH". The bottom row contains covers of "KEYA DAS’S SECOND ACT", "KIND LIKE MARSHA: LEARNING FROM LGBTQ+ LEADERS", "THE LUNAR HOUSEWIFE", "SLAYING THE DRAGON: A SECRET HISTORY OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS", "TEN THOUSAND SELVES", and "THE TRAYVON GENERATION".

Books

Reading List Fall 2022: New historical fiction about Joan of Arc, a World War II thriller, and the “secret history” of Dungeons & Dragons

November 1, 2022

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Arts & Culture

Lynae Vanee Bogues Sheds Light on Often Overlooked Black History in Her IGTV Series Parking Lot Pimpin’

April 11, 2022

Alumni

Pulitzer Prize Winner and Former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Headlines Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Tuesday

April 11, 2022

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Arts & Culture

Poems of Healing for These Troubled Times

April 8, 2021

Arts & Culture

Two Poets, Drawn by History, Headline Thursday’s Lowell Poetry Reading

February 18, 2021

Two Poets, Drawn by History, Headline Thursday’s Lowell Poetry Reading