The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

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John Evelev from MU's English Department shares how his literary research gave him a new appreciation for the holiday.

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Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

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This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, ...

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