After reaching the Weld Boathouse on the Charles River, hear physician, poet, and Harvard Medical School Associate Professor Rafael Campo read his poem “Song in the Off Season.”

Lowell House is home of the Lowell House bell tower, and where Robert Lowell once lived. The House itself is named after former Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, an ancestor of the poet. While living in the House, Lowell caused a scandal by dating an older woman named Anne Dick, of whom his...

Outside of Lamont Library, which houses the Woodberry Poetry Room, listen to Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Elisa New read one of alumnus Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems.”