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Poetry

Tracy Smith stands at a podium and speaks
Turnbull Lecture
On the power and mystique of metaphor
Published Oct 25, 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, the U.S. Poet laureate, visits Johns Hopkins
Authors include: (top row, from left) Salman Rushdie, Mary Jo Salter, Andrew Motion; (center row, from left) Tracy K. Smith, Teju Cole, Alice McDermott; (bottom row, from left) Katharine Noel, and Yiyun Li
President's Reading Series
8 notable authors to visit Homewood
Published Sept 12, 2017
Program begins Sept. 26 with reading from novelist Salman Rushdie
Molly Peacock
Poetry
Ambiguous loss
Published Summer 2017
Poet Molly Peacock processes a friend's massive stroke through her latest collection, 'The Analyst' / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Poetry
Ode to a muse
Published June 2, 2017
Student leaves behind poem for 'Woman with Sunglasses on Bench' sculpture at MSE Library
Katherine Robinson stands on top of a green mountain in Wales
Student recognition
Alum named Gates Cambridge Scholar
Published Feb 28, 2017
Writer Katherine Robinson will study connections between 20th century poet Ted Hughes and medieval Celtic folklore
Photo of Quraysh Ali Lansana
Q+A
Hip-hop and poetry
Published Feb 5, 2016
Quraysh Ali Lansana, co-editor of 'The BreakBeat Poets,' visits JHU for free reading Monday
FACULTY
A British poet in Baltimore
Published Jan 11, 2016
Sir Andrew Motion settles into life in America as a Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins
Books
Top holiday gift pick
Published Dec 15, 2015
Collection of T.S. Eliot poems published by JHU Press wins readers choice honor / Inside Higher Ed
Illustration of a girl reading a book
Community Learning
Poetic change agents
Published Winter 2015
When Dora Malech started mentoring a Baltimore City teen, she had no idea they'd be designing a course together / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Feeling powerless
Published Winter 2014
Chris Nealon's new collection of poems move with a pop song's accessibility while freighting the emotional weight of a short story. / Johns Hopkins Magazine