Poetry by contemporary Southern writers was the topic of USC Aiken’s latest “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Dr. Tom Mack, distinguished professor emeritus, and Andrew Geyer, ...

During his Presidential Faculty Award Lecture, titled “Dwelling in a World of Poetry,” Professor of Islamic Humanities, History and Religious Studies Shahzad Bashir spoke Monday afternoon about the ...

Vona Groarke, Ireland Professor of Poetry will be guest speaker at the inaugural Jude Flynn Memorial Lecture, organised and ...

Herbie Hancock, one of the architects of contemporary American music, who has left his fingerprints in just about every form of the art, is now the Harvard University 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry, ...

Hermine Pinson has been influenced by the work of many poets, authors, musicians and artists throughout her lifetime, starting with her childhood in the segregated Deep South to her almost three ...

Helen Vendler, a prolific poetry critic and literature professor at Harvard University, will deliver the 2004 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced ...

James Porter, Irving Stone Chair in Literature and Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, University of California, Berkeley University programs and activities are open ...

There is a thread of environmental anxiety present in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc” and though the art of his 19th-century ode doesn’t accurately predict the reality of 21st-century ...

On Oct. 15, University of Massachusetts English Professor Martín Espada shared with students the importance of advocating for social justice and how their ideas can change the world. Espada captivated ...

(On Friday June 18, Oxford University announced that Geoffrey Hill had won the election to become the university’s 44th Professor of Poetry. Hill claimed 1,156 of the roughly 2,500 votes that were ...