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Literature

BU’s first Mellon New Directions fellow, Wiebke Denecke, will travel across East Asia researching Classical Chinese, the region’s forgotten lingua franca. Photo by Tim Gray

History

Reclaiming a Common Language

April 28, 2015

Boston University BU, Lowell Lecture reading, Pulitzer winner Sharon Olds, Renee Emerson, poetry

Poetry

Renowned “Poet of the Personal” to Read Tonight

November 20, 2014

poet Karl Kirchwey, Creative Writing Program director, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

Faculty

Award-Winning Poet New Creative Writing Program Director

October 20, 2014

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

Awards

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

Books

The Lieutenant’s Diary

May 22, 2014

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

Arts & Culture

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

Music

Nightlife: The Moth StorySLAM

April 10, 2014

Photo: A cross in front of a blue sky background

Literature

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

Books

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

Accolades

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

Literature

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

Staff

Beauty and Anti-Semitism: The Gospel of John

October 15, 2013

Boston University BU, poetry literature, UROP, research,

Poetry

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

Poetry

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

Arts & Culture

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,

Literature

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

February 20, 2013

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