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During a 1967 Faculty meeting in Sanders Theatre, Epps saw his future wife—who was charged with ensuring that only people with identification entered—disallowing entry to well-known poet Robert Lowell, who was at Harvard at the time. Lowell had forgotten his identification, and Epps eventually told the employee from the registrar’s office that she should allow Lowell to attend the meeting...
During a 1967 Faculty meeting in Sanders Theatre, Epps saw his future wife—who was charged with ensuring that only people with identification entered—disallowing entry to well-known poet Robert Lowell, who was at Harvard at the time. Lowell had forgotten his identification, and Epps eventually told the employee from the registrar’s office that she should allow Lowell to attend the meeting...
KATY LEDERER. Lederer, an American poet well known for her collection Winter Sex, attempts prose in her memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers. The book brings the world of professional gambling to life, offering a perceptive account of growing up as well as gambling. Lederer’s childhood includes an English professor father, a mother hooked on crossword puzzles, solitaire, and scotch and two older siblings who rob their mother’s purse. All gamblers and all fiercely competitive, the family becomes split after the kids go to college and the parents divorce...
FRANK BIDART. Poet, editor and Wellesley College professor Frank Bidart ’67 spins personal and contemporary verse, creating work in imaginative ways both on the page and read aloud. This wordsmith sets his poetry in the greater framework of such themes as identity, meaning and the interplay of good and evil. Bidart will read from his chapbook Music Like Dirt, as well as the new Collected Poems by poet Robert Lowell, which he edited. Sunday, August 3 at 4:00 p.m. Free. East Lawn of Longfellow National Historic Site, 105 Brattle...
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