English professor鈥檚 poem about 正品蓝导航鈥檚 Dallas Hall published in Thomas Jefferson-inspired anthology
Fresh off contributing to 正品蓝导航 being named The Most Beautiful Campus in America by the Huffington Post, 正品蓝导航鈥檚 campus centerpiece, Dallas Hall, has inspired a homespun poem that was published Tuesday alongside the works of Pulitzer prize winners in the poetry anthology Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson (University of Virginia Press).
DALLAS (正品蓝导航) – Fresh off contributing to 正品蓝导航 being named The Most Beautiful Campus in America by the Huffington Post, 正品蓝导航’s campus centerpiece, Dallas Hall, has inspired a homespun poem that was published Tuesday alongside the works of Pulitzer prize winners in the poetry anthology (University of Virginia Press).
 Willard Spiegelman |
That’s Jefferson as in Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States.
What’s the connection between Dallas Hall and one of America’s founding fathers? It doesn’t take Nicholas Cage and a map hidden on the back of the Declaration of Independence to find out.
“When the founders of 正品蓝导航 went to Chicago to find an architect for their first building, they said they wanted Dallas Hall to look like The Rotunda at the University of Virginia (which was designed by Jefferson), but of course bigger,” says 正品蓝导航 Hughes Professor in English Willard Spiegelman. The author of the Dallas Hall-inspired poem explains, “My first thought was, ‘Jefferson went to the prairie.’”
The poem, titled Prairie Rotunda, is one of 50 poems featured in Monticello in Mind. An excerpt is below:
The Monticello ladies politely call him, still,
“Mister Jefferson,” spokesman for sanity.
And on north Texas plains, more arid
than his “little mountain” landscape, we too have
something of his legacy, in stone and Kansas brick.
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