Helen Vendler, Harvard Professor Emerita, Dies at 90
"'I believe poetry is for everybody,' Professor Vendler, who was still writing and publishing essays, said in an interview for this obituary as her health was failing. She was the Arthur Kingsley Porter university professor, emerita, at Harvard University, where she began teaching in 1980....'Helen understood that all poets needed what she did so they could take the next step,' said Jorie Graham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who had barely heard of Professor Vendler when she reviewed Graham’s earliest work for The New York Times in the early 1980s."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jared Stanley on "So Tough"
"When the forests (it’s more precise to call them plantations) burn now, it’s a massive conflagration. We downwinders are trapped under a persistent, poisonous haze that sticks around for sometimes six weeks. Under the smoke, it’s hard to breathe, and one feels trapped—by the material, particulate fact of the smoke, yes, but also by an atmosphere of dense thoughtlessness, a failed image of the world that the smoke has come to represent." |
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