Arts & Culture
A Poet’s Wisdom: Alice Fulton
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Think of a profession that you associate with physical labor … bricklayer? Janitor? Lumberjack? What about a profession associated with education … professor? Lawyer?
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Marginalia’s Open Mic and the Power of Vulnerability
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On Oct. 18, 2024 in the Anne Curry Durland Memorial Alternatives Library in Anabel Taylor Hall, people from across the academic spectrum showed up to share their poetry with one another. It was a two hour event, starting around 7 and lasting until 9 p.m.. For those 120 minutes, every ear was carefully attentive to the words of both friends and strangers, as one by one, people would come to the front of the room and present a poem or two for all to hear. After each poem, a flurry of snapped fingers would caress the walls, and then silence again.
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Retired Senior Lecturer Mary Gilliland ’73 MAT ’80 Becomes Award-Winning Poet
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Mary Gilliland ’73 MAT ’80 wrote several award-winning poetry collections after retiring from her senior lecturer position.
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Distinguished Poet Natasha Trethewey Visits Cornell
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Natasha Trethewey, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize, visited Cornell on March 14 as part of the Zalaznick Reading Series.
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The Spaces in Between: Poetry Month at Cornell
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Cornellians found various ways to connect and express themselves with poetry throughout April, which is National Poetry Month.
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Gregory Pardlo and Subverting Expectations
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As a writer, there are few things that make me feel grateful to be alive the way poetry does. This past Thursday, the Cornell Department of English hosted author Gregory Pardlo as the first guest in the Fall 2018 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series. Pardlo’s collection, Digest, was the recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In 2007, his first book of poetry, Totem, won the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. This past April, he published Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood, which was named one of “17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer” by the New York Times.
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Carolyn Forché Reads from Her Work for Zalaznick Reading Series
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From the genuine emotion that pervaded her reading to her well-considered answers to our questions, I believe that Forché deserves her reputation as a humanitarian poet. She gave every impression of a person who has witnessed horrors, had time to reflect on them deeply, and emerged irrevocably changed.
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PERATI | Weathering the Storm
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Weather offers a space to reflect and process the anger and heartbreak of living in a world plagued with destructive forces of violence, hate, and injustice.
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‘In the Lateness of the World’: Witness to a Denouement
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“In the Lateness of the World” is Forché’s most recent book, her first new collection of poetry in seventeen years. In it, she writes on subjects ranging from the global to the personal — from war-scarred history to a visitation to a lighthouse, from dawn over Paros to the death of a friend.