Jorie Graham
Poet
Jorie Graham is the author of 10 collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won The Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University. Graham is the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard, a chair with an illustrious lineage dating back to John Quincy Adams. She was the unanimous choice of a special interdepartmental search committee formed to replace Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who held the position previously.
How Has the Internet Changed Language?
The Web fosters a staggering level of global connectedness when it comes to communication, but may not actually change language all that much.
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America’s Understanding of the Planet
The poet explains why “one of the things that we need to do as Americans at present…involves keeping the imagination of the future alive.”
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Jorie Graham On Growing Up Trilingual
How growing up in Rome and attending college in France shaped Jorie Graham’s sense of language.
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Why Is English Better for Poetry Than the Romance Languages?
France, Italy, and Spain have their painters; Germany and Italy have their composers; but few countries can challenge England and America when it comes to poets. Trilingual poet Jorie Graham […]
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What is the European mentality?
Europe is a place where people have been continuously creating culture for quite a few thousand years, so the pressure of history is on you in every instance.
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