DC March for Science

April 22nd 2017

One of several hundred marches around the world, the March for Science in DC attracted about 20,000 participants despite a steady rain. People packed the Mall around the Washington Monument in the morning to listen to speakers and entertainers before marching off to the Capitol in the afternoon. Before the ...
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DC March for Science

To Write Poetry after Auschwitz is (NOT!) Barbaric

A lecture prepared for presentation at the University of Virginia

I am very pleased to join you today and share my reflections on the importance of, not only poetry, but art more generally, as it helps us confront the social condition of collective memory in dark times. I am especially grateful for Irit Dekel’s invitation to give this presentation. First as ...
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