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Jorie Graham

Poet

Summer heat, the first early morning of it... Read More

The Web fosters a staggering level of global connectedness when it comes to communication, but may not actually change language all that much. Read More

Jorie Graham explains her working method. Read More

Which poets inform your work? Read More

The poet explains why "one of the things that we need to do as Americans at present...involves keeping the imagination of the future alive." Read More

What is the founding American myth? Read More

What is the European mentality and how much of it has Jorie Graham retained? Read More

France, Italy, and Spain have their painters; Germany and Italy have their composers; but few countries can challenge England and America when it comes to poets. Trilingual poet Jorie Graham ventures an opinion as to why. Read More

How growing up in Rome and attending college in France shaped Jorie Graham's sense of language. Read More

About Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham is the author of 10 collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won The Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University. Graham is the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard, a chair with an illustrious lineage dating back to John Quincy Adams. She was the unanimous choice of a special interdepartmental search committee formed to replace Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who held the position previously.

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