Stories about "John A. Tagliabue"
Robert Farnsworth's poem for John A. Tagliabue
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 9:30 am
At the Sept. 11, 2006, faculty meeting, English faculty member Rob Farnsworth, who spent the summer as the poet-in-residence at The Frost Place, a museum and arts center housed in poet Robert Frost's former homestead in Franconia, N.H., offered this poem as part of the faculty's Memorial Minute for the late John Tagliabue. Farnsworth also read a poem of Tagliabue's, called "Sliding into the Future."
John A. Tagliabue memorial minute
Thursday, June 1, 2006 9:24 am
For John Tagliabue, who devoted 36 years to Bates as teacher, colleague, friend, raconteur and poet laureate, neither a memorial minute, nor even two voices, begins to suffice. Everyone who knew him has their favorite John stories, inadequately represented here. But we hope you'll indulge us in rather more than a minute and remember this renowned American poet by reading his poems again or for the first time.
John Tagliabue, professor emeritus of English, dies at 82
Thursday, June 1, 2006 12:00 am
Professor Emeritus of English John A. Tagliabue, a member of the Bates faculty from 1953 to 1989 and author of six books of poetry, including New and Selected Poems, 1942-1997 (National Poetry Foundation, 1998), died May 31 in Providence, R.I., where he had lived with his wife, Grace, since 1998.