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Category: Poetry and Poets
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Harvard’s Taylor Swift Scholars Have Thoughts on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
The students taking Harvard University’s class on the singer are studying up. Their final papers are due at the end of the month.
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7 Songs That Reference Tortured Poets
Taylor Swift said she channeled them; Patti Smith, Lana Del Rey, the Smiths and others cited them.
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Taylor Swift Lyrics: Who’s Mentioned on ‘Tortured Poets Department?
Ex-boyfriends may be alluded to. Travis Kelce, too, fans believe. And some actual poets.
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Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music
The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”
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The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
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Gylan Kain, a Founder of the Last Poets and a Progenitor of Rap, Dies at 81
He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem spoken-word collective, lay a foundation for what was to come.
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‘Modern Love Podcast’: Novelist Celeste Ng on the Big Power of Little Things
The acclaimed author delves into a Modern Love essay about parenting, poetry and persistence.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Why Did I Choose Her?’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Pankaj Udhas, Bollywood Singer and Maestro of the Ghazal, Dies at 72
His soulful renditions of ghazals, or traditional love poems, were featured on the soundtracks of hit Bollywood movies and moved generations of Indians.
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Poets React to Taylor Swift’s New ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Album
The title of Taylor Swift’s next album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” spurred strong responses from a typically quiet bunch.