March 9, 2004

Kick-off Event

Guests enjoyed a lively reading by and discussion with Helen Vendler.

Friends of Harvard Magazine held its first event at the Harvard Faculty Club on March 9, 2003. The 115 guests enjoyed a lively reading by and discussion with Helen Vendler, Harvard’s A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, about her new book, Coming of Age as a Poet.

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