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University News Robert Pinsky, America’s Ambassador for Poetry, Retiring from Teaching After 36 Years at BU, More Than 1,000 Students April 29, 2025
Arts & Culture Pulitzer-Winning Poet Philip Schultz to Deliver Spring 2024 Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture March 7 March 5, 2024
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
Arts & Culture Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Speaks of Migrants and Memory—and That Call from Sweden April 25, 2023
Books Pulitzer Prize Winner and Former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Headlines Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Tuesday April 11, 2022
Creative Writing A BU Teacher and Her Former Student Headline Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading October 28, 2021
Arts & Culture Two Poets, Drawn by History, Headline Thursday’s Lowell Poetry Reading February 18, 2021
Books National Book Award Winner Sigrid Nunez Explores Life, Death, and Empathy in New Novel November 13, 2020
Poetry Pulitzer Prize Winner Natasha Trethewey to Lead Thursday’s Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading October 15, 2020
Arts & Culture Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen to Give Ha Jin Lecture Tonight November 19, 2019
Arts & Culture “Wandering Poet” Naomi Shihab Nye Headlines Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading November 5, 2019