A Reading in Honor of Elizabeth Bishop and the Arion Press
When:
Monday, Oct 30, 2017 7:00p -
8:00p
Monday, Oct 30, 2017 7:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Harvard University, Barker Center, Thompson Room
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, University
Event website:
https://english.fas.harvard.edu/?post_type=events&p=9920
The Department of English and the Arion Press are hosting an exhibit and a reading celebrating the publication of The Little of Our Earthly Trust (Arion Press 2016), an edition of the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop selected and introduced by Helen Vendler and with twenty-four prints by John Newman.
Readers include Frank Bidart, Helen Vendler, Peter Sacks and Andrew Hoyem, Publisher, Arion Press.
The exhibit will feature fourteen limited-edition poetry books from the Arion Press with Introductions by Helen Vendler and accompanying art by Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Richard Diebenkorn, R. B. Kitaj, Sol Lewitt, Larry Rivers, Jane Freilicher, Willem de Kooning, Julian Lethbridge, Wendy Artin, John Newman, William Blake, Barry Moser, and others.
A reception will follow the reading.