T. Leslie Shear Jr., professor of classical archaeology, emeritus, died Sept. 28 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center after a brief illness. He was 88.
The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the names of the mediamakers selected for the new Humanities Sustainability Fellowship, a year-long program providing 20 U.S.-based under-resourced nonfiction mediamakers whose work and livelihood have been grossly affected by the pandemic with direct, unrestricted stipends to supplement their income.
The endless possibilities of poetry
With a storied literary past, Washington University continues to provide time, place and space to stretch as a poet.
April 9, 2021 SHARE
On any given day, the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis campus offers an opportunity to revel in its rich poetry tradition, if you know where to look.
Places such as east of Olin Library, where an allée of ginkgo trees stands and that once inspired Poet Laureate Howard Nemerov to write “The Consent.”
Or in University Libraries’ Julian Edison Department of Special Collections, where you can find a blue book that displays the scribbles of a young T.S. Eliot.