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Jorie Graham (née Pepper; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." [1] She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University , becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position. [1]
Sacks taught English at Johns Hopkins University between 1980 and 1996, being promoted to full professor in 1989. Since 1996, he has been a professor of English and American literature and language at Harvard University. [3] [4] His first wife was Barbara Kassel, a painter and teacher of painting. Sacks married Pulitzer-prize winning poet Jorie ...
The Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory is an endowed chair at Harvard University. It was established in 1804, and endowed by the will of a Boston merchant, Nicholas Boylston. It was established in 1804, and endowed by the will of a Boston merchant, Nicholas Boylston.
The Best American Poetry 1990. The Best American Poetry 1990, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Jorie Graham. The book contains seventy-five poems with a range of poet-authors from a college freshman to the 1990 United States Poet Laureate. David Lehman publicly commented that poetry in ...
In 1992 Haviaras relaunched the publication as Harvard Review, a perfect-bound journal of approximately 200 pages, featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, published semi-annually by the Harvard College Library. In 2000 Haviaras retired from Harvard University and Christina Thompson (formerly the editor of the Australian journal ...
The Gamut was a student publication at Harvard University between 1998 and 2017. [1] The magazine was devoted exclusively to poetry. Weekly meetings started with the reading aloud of published poems and continued on to the reading and discussion of student submissions. All poems were considered anonymously, and each had to pass two rounds of ...
Ford also credits poet Jorie Graham for inspiration during her studies at Harvard, where she earned a Master’s in Divinity and began work on her first poetry collection, Deposition. She then went on to receive a Master’s in Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Iowa.
The press has been the subject of several scandals. Documents uncovered by the website Foetry.com revealed that the 1999 University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry series prize to Peter M. Sacks had been judged by Jorie Graham, a colleague of Sacks at Harvard University who subsequently married him.