poets

Yale

Yale students demand end to ‘hostile’ English Lit courses

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The latest social-justice crusade bubbling up among "oppressed" undergraduates at prestigious Yale University comes in the form of a student petition asserting that a "Major English Poets" curriculum requirement features too many major poets from England who are white and male. The petition

New Jersey

Jarmusch, Driver bewitch Cannes with poetic ‘Paterson’

CANNES, France (AP) — Jim Jarmusch debuted his patient, bus driver-poet drama "Paterson" at the Cannes Film Festival where festival-goers responded enthusiastically to the film's gentle and quirky rhythms. In the movie, Adam Driver plays a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey, who writes poetry inspired by