Posts Tagged ‘university’
Novelist Salman Rushdie reads a passage of romantic poetry from Mir Hasan’s 18th century ‘Enchanting Story’.
Michael C. Carlos Museum, March 1, 2010
The poetry of India is filled with sensual images of jewelry and adornment. See more at http://www.carlos.emory.edu and http://www.emory.edu/rushdie
Duration : 0:6:48
World-renowned poet Diane di Prima, one of the preeminent writers to emerge from the Beat generation, wrote in Manhattan for many years before relocating to San Francisco, where she has been for nearly four decades. In addition to raising five children, di Prima has studied photography, collage, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sanskrit, and alchemy, all of which inform her intensely lyrical writing. Her 43 books of poetry and prose have been translated into over twenty languages.
http://www.lunchpoems.berkeley.edu
Duration : 0:42:53
Novelist Salman Rushdie reads a passage of romantic poetry from Mir Hasan’s 18th century ‘Enchanting Story’.
Michael C. Carlos Museum, March 1, 2010
The poetry of India is filled with sensual images of jewelry and adornment. See more at http://www.carlos.emory.edu
Duration : 0:6:48
Nicholas Roe, University of St. Andrews in Scotland, presents, “Rhinoceros among Giraffes: Keats and the Elgin Marbles.” Roe is an internationally renowned expert on Keats and on romantic poetry, culture and politics. The talk is sponsored by the University of New Mexico’s Department of English, English Graduate Student Association, Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, and English Department 19th Century Group.
Duration : 1:6:1
Born in Odessa, Ilya Kaminsky immigrated to the United States in 1993 when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Polish poet Adam Zagajewski says of Kaminsky, “He grafts the gifts of the Russian newer literary tradition on the American tree of poetry and forgetting.” Kaminsky teaches comparative literature, poetry and literary translation at San Diego State University.
http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu
Duration : 0:42:27