Elizabeth Bishop at 100
with
Elizabeth Alexander
John Ashbery
Frank Bidart
Joelle Biele
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Tina Chang
James Fenton
Jonathan Galassi
Kimiko Hahn
Richard Howard
Yusef Komunyakaa
David Lehman
Paul Muldoon
Robert Polito
Katha Pollitt
Marie Ponsot
Alice Quinn
Vijay Seshadri
Tom Sleigh
Mark Strand
Tracy K. Smith
Jean Valentine
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
The Great Hall, Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street at 3rd Avenue
Presented by the Poetry Society of America and Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
with the Academy of American Poets, the National Book Foundation,
Poets House, and the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y.
Visuals provided by Special Collections, Vassar College Library;
images of Elizabeth Bishop’s manuscripts courtesy of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Portrait of Elizabeth Bishop by Loren MacIver, used with permission of Alexandre Gallery.
Reading from
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker:
The Complete Correspondence
Edited by Joelle Biele and just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Maria Tucci — the voice of Elizabeth Bishop
Alice Quinn — the voice of Katharine S. White
Paul Muldoon — the voice of William Maxwell and of Howard Moss
Readers
Poems
Frank Bidart
Yusef Komunyakaa
John Ashbery
Richard Howard
Vijay Seshadri
Tina Chang
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Jonathan Galassi
Katha Pollitt
James Fenton
Joelle Biele
Mark Strand
Kimiko Hahn
Elizabeth Alexander
David Lehman
Robert Polito
Jean Valentine
Tracy K. Smith
Tom Sleigh
Marie Ponsot
Roosters
The Fish
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
The Bight
At the Fishhouses
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore
The Shampoo
Arrival at Santos
Questions of Travel
The Burglar of Babylon
Sestina
First Death in Nova Scotia
Sandpiper
In the Waiting Room
Crusoe in England
Poem
Objects & Apparitions
Five Flights Up
North Haven
Sonnet
This centenary tribute to Elizabeth Bishop is dedicated to the memory of Alice Helen Methfessel (1943-2009).
New editions of Elizabeth Bishop’s Poems and Prose as well as Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence
are for sale this evening at a special price.