Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dimond, Paul R

Titel

FROST AND BURTON AT MICHIGAN, 1921-26, THEN AND NOW

Ist Teil von

• Michigan quarterly review, 2018-12, Vol.57 (1), p.28-0_8

Ort / Verlag

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Frei zugängliche E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]non-teaching positions were the exceptions that proved the rule, but the Frost-Burton model did establish a precedent that enabled many other poets and creative writers to find positions on campuses as writers-in-residence, in addition to teaching classes, seminars, and workshops. President John F. Kennedy and the University of Michigan both answered this question at four major public events between 1961 and 1963.1 On January 20,1961, at President-elect Kennedy's request, Frost read the first ever poem as part of the official inauguration ceremony, entitled "The Gift Outright." Kennedy honored a poet as no other president quite can again-not only by inviting him to give the first reading of a poem at a US presidential inauguration, but also in delivering his personal eulogy for the poet. PAUL R. DIMOND (1969, J.D.) served as Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Economic Policy, and Director of the National Economic Council.