[Yale-readings] 4-7, 5pm: Celebration of Elizabeth Bishop

[Nancy Kuhl]

"fresh as if just finished" The poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, with 
readings and commentary by Yale faculty and new musical settings by 
undergraduate composers, in celebration of the Library of America's 
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

April 7, 5 pm, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium

(Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Whitney Humanities 
Center, and the Yale Review)

Free and open to the public.
For more information contact Manana Sikic at 203 432-0673 or e-mail 
manana.sikic at yale.edu


"fresh as if just finished": The Writings of Elizabeth Bishop

On Monday, April 7, 2008, Yale University will celebrate the recent 
publication of Elizabeth Bishop's Poems, Prose, and Letters in the 
distinguished Library of America series.

Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the equivalent to 
what is today called the Poet Laureate) in 1949-50, Elizabeth Bishop 
was famous for writing slowly and publishing sparingly.  Nonetheless, 
over the course of her lifetime, Bishop garnered almost every major 
literary prize and honor.  In 1955, she received the Pulitzer Prize 
for Poems: North & South -- A Cold Spring.  Her Questions of Travel 
won the National Book Award in 1965, and Geography III received the 
National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976.  Bishop's work has only 
grown in renown since this volume and her death in 1979. Her poems 
are treasured for their wit and moral acuity, for their precise 
vision of both external and internal landscapes, and for their 
technical mastery and sense of spontaneity.

Our celebration-featuring readings, commentary, and song-will be held 
in the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium from 5 to 6 
p.m.  Participants include essayist Anne Fadiman, critic Langdon 
Hammer, poet John Hollander, musician Richard Lalli, Dean Penelope 
Laurans, novelist Alice Mattison, poet J. D. McClatchy, playwright 
Mark O'Donnell, a group of extraordinary singers and musicians, and 
Lloyd Schwartz, from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. 
Professor Schwartz, a personal friend of Bishop's and a Pulitzer 
Prize-winning critic, is co-editor, with Robert Giroux, of the 
Library of America Elizabeth Bishop volume.

Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Yale Review, and the 
Whitney Humanities Center, this event is free and open to the public.
For more information contact Manana Sikic at 203 432-0673 or e-mail 
manana.sikic at yale.edu



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