This week’s show featured a lecture by award-winning poet Eavan Boland, who was introduced by former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky. Her lecture was delivered as part of the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series at Boston University.
Hosted by the Creative Writing Program, the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series is a series of high-profile poetry readings [...]

This show featured a lecture by author Gregory Maguire.
Titled “A Few Wicked Years,” Maguire’s lecture was sponsored by the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts, in cooperation with the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University.
Maguire has written both adult and children’s books, including “Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister,” “Lost,” and “Son of [...]

This show rebroadcast a lecture by Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky.
Chomsky delivered the lecture, entitled “Biolinguistics Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution,” earlier this year as part of Boston University Department of Psychology’s Distinguished Lecture Series and the Human Development Program Colloquium Series.
Chomsky is credited with the creation of the [...]