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Donald Revell Sees an Enchanted World at Harvard’s Fall Poetry Symposium

October 17, 2023
Warm afternoon light poured through the arched windows of the Williams Chapel at Harvard Divinity School as a small but attentive crowd gathered to hear poet Donald Revell deliver a poetry reading, craft talk, and discussion sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions. Revell has authored 16 poetry collections, the most recent of which, White Campion, was published in 2021.
Tracy K. Smith hosts poetry workshop at the CSWR

Pulitzer Prize-Winner Tracy K. Smith Hosts Poetry Workshop at HDS

May 25, 2023

“If this were the only poem that you had ever seen, what would you suspect poems are for?”

On a recent sunny afternoon, Harvard Divinity School students and community members made their way to the Center for the Study of World Religion (CSWR) for a special poetry workshop with Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith.

Suzannah Omonuk

Modeling Multireligious Community: Suzannah Omonuk, MDiv '23

November 4, 2021

Soon after Suzannah Omonuk (she/her) began studying at HDS, she came across an application for a student grant funded by Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, which examines Harvard’s connections to slavery through ongoing discussions, programming, and research. Omonuk learned about slavery as a child growing up in Uganda, but these lessons did not fully explain the aftermath seen and felt in the US and beyond. She began writing a poem, “The Story of Venus,” both to give voice to an enslaved young woman who worked on Harvard’s campus in the 1700s and to process her own experience as a young African woman in the United States. “I thought, what better way to do it than place myself in the shoes of another young Black woman who came to this country and who walked the streets of Harvard under completely different circumstances?”... Read more about Modeling Multireligious Community: Suzannah Omonuk, MDiv '23

Robin Coste Lewis, MTS ’97, poet laureate and National Book Award winner, Doctor of Creative Writing and Literature, avid Sanskrit scholar, and 2021 Gomes Honoree.

Divinity Dialogues: Robin Coste Lewis on Epic Poetry and the Sacredness of Female Deities

July 6, 2021

"The notion of a stranger, for me—the way I was raised and the way that I studied—is that the stranger just might hold the key to your liberation"

Continuing Divinity Dialogues—a special edition podcast series from Harvard Divinity School that puts conversations on faith, purpose, and bearing witness at the center of today’s most pressing issues. Today, we hear from HDS alum Robin Coste Lewis, MTS ’97. Robin is a poet laureate, National Book Award winner, Doctor of Creative Writing and Literature, LA Woman of the Year, and avid Sanskrit scholar...

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