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Oxford Poetry Drama Continues: Padel Admits to Sending E-mails, Resigns

by Staff

Daily News

Ruth Padel, the poet chosen ten days ago to become the first female professor of poetry at Oxford University, resigned yesterday after admitting she alerted newspaper reporters to sexual harassment allegations against poet Derek Walcott, who subsequently dropped out of the race for the post.

Oxford University Appoints First Woman Professor of Poetry

by Staff

Daily News

Two weeks after Great Britain appointed its first ever woman poet laureate, Oxford University has elected its first female professor of poetry.

Derek Walcott Drops Out of Race for Oxford Professorship

by Staff

Daily News

Poet Derek Walcott announced on Tuesday that he has withdrawn his bid to become the next professor of poetry at Oxford University.

Confessions of a Dangerous Reader and Teacher

by Kerri Smith

One of my favorite passages in literature is from Italo Calvino’s if on a winter’s night a traveler—the one in which the narrator stands in the bookstore listing all the different kinds of books every true reader owns but will never read. Somehow it’s always captured, exactly, the disconnect between the truth and fiction of my own reading life.