Fred Moten, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, discussed a poem called "On Listening to the Two-Headed Lady Blow Her Horn," which is from Honorée Fanonne Jeffers's extraordinary collection, The Gospel of Barbecue.... Read more about Video: Fred Moten: Note on a Blue Note in The Gospel of Barbecue

After teaching in the Department of Theology at Loyola University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, and in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, Charles Hallisey joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School in 2007 as the Yehan Numeta Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures.... Read more about Poems of the First Buddhist Women: Q&A With Charles Hallisey

Eliza Griswold, a poet, writer, and journalist, reads from poems she's written this year at HDS, and present the blueprint of her Berggruen Fellowship project mapping Syrian artists, filmmakers, poets, and writers since the revolution began.... Read more about Video: New Poems and a Talk on Syrian Artists in Exile

Eliza Griswold has traveled the world researching conflicts.

Over the summer, The New York Times Magazine published her article "Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East?" For her first book, The Tenth Parallel, she spent years traveling in Africa and Asia along the fault line where Christianity and Islam intersect and interact.... Read more about Poetry, Conflict, and Context