The Chronicle of Higher Education

Poetry Scholar Uses Jefferson Lecture to Tout the Importance of the Arts in Education

A humanities education should focus on language, literature, and the arts, not on history and philosophy, said the Harvard University professor Helen Vendler, who delivered the annual Jefferson ...
The Root

Herbie Hancock Named Professor of Poetry at Harvard

Herbie Hancock, one of the architects of contemporary American music, who has left his fingerprints in just about every form of the art, is now the Harvard University 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry, ...
The Boston Globe

Larry Summers’ wife — a powerful Harvard professor — tapped Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen to boost her poetry project

In the fall of 2013, prominent Harvard professor Elisa New filmed a short interview with the controversial movie director Woody Allen in which they debated a poem about a man eating plums. The footage ...
Publishers Weekly

HUP Announces Norton Lectures Centenary Editions

Harvard University Press (HUP) will reissue five titles from its Charles Eliot Norton Lectures series, including Jorge Luis Borges’s This Craft of Verse and Umberto Eco’s Six Walks in the Fictional ...