Host Elizabeth Howard talks with poet and performer Kyle Ducayan, executive director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, about the purpose of poetry.
Elizabeth Bishop
Book Review: Colm Tóibin On Elizabeth Bishop
In some essential and large way, novelist Colm Tóibin gets Elizabeth Bishop right.
Theater Review: “Dear Elizabeth” — Letters That Celebrate Love, Friendship, and Literary Art
Whether or not you’re familiar with Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell, their worlds or their poetry, you should hasten to this show.
Book Review: Poetry, Prose, and Politics — Elizabeth Bishop at 100
No new edition of Bishop’s poetry, which she created with such loving-care and sent to publishers with such restraint, not to say stinginess, could advance her current reputation. She is America’s flagship, 20th-century poet, leaving the straight men (Eliot, Frost, Stevens, and Lowell) in her wake. (Expect a Bishop backlash by 2020.) Yet many poetry […]