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1. Don’t forget the lyric

   Cornell prof takes on poetry in lecture series

   Feb 11 by Christopher Mastropietro

   At the end of Jonathan Culler’s hour-long lecture on Tuesday evening, an audience member raised a question. In their works, poets often speak of solitude, the man said. Isn’t it a paradox if the poet expresses his isolation in a poem that he intends others to experience? Is that what the poet intended? Culler was hesitant to answer. “Theories of...

2. Best poets' society

   Prof. Albert Moritz searched far and wide to create his new Canadian poetry anthology

   11/19/09 by Emily Kellogg

   “I don’t like the idea of characterizing my own poetry. I like sitting in the middle of it and thinking of it as being incomprehensibly vast and various.” Professor Albert Moritz speaks slowly, searching with determination for the perfect combination of words in conversation. As the poet, academic, and former journalist speaks about the written word, Moritz’s reverence for craft...