Romantic Poetry Meets 21st-Century Technology

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By BROCK READ

Mark Phillipson held a few part-time jobs with Silicon Valley start-ups before he became a visiting assistant professor of English at Bowdoin College. But it was dumb luck, not technological savvy, that put him on the cutting edge of a blossoming classroom-technology trend.

During...