Katie Couric, Mary Chapin Carpenter and others explore Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art". “The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” Bishop wrote in the poem, "One Art", universally considered one of ...
One Art The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, ...
A new exhibit at Vassar College highlights the personal papers of the renowned 20th Century poet Elizabeth Bishop – with a fun twist. Lining the halls of Vassar’s stately Thompson Library are tables ...
Readers admire Robert Lowell, entertain a fondness for Marianne Moore, respect Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot, become fanatics, a few of them, over Ezra Pound, even compete to join the cult of Sylvia ...
As the tourism industry rebounds from the pandemic, more of us will be hitting the road this summer, drawn to new destinations. But trips can bring regret, too. Was it really worth it to visit a ...
WORCESTER - A flock of Canada geese added their voices, as poetry enthusiasts read works from renowned poet, painter, memoirist and short story writer, Worcester’s own Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) by ...
The biopic, with its stubborn fidelity to the contours of real life, seems a poor form with which to honor a poet. Literalism is inimical to poetry, and yet literalism is the biopic’s principal ...
On Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz and Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia ...
This short poem grapples with so many themes at once, then finishes by reclaiming the body, desire and memory with a simple statement. By Ama Codjoe and Victoria Chang Elizabeth Bishop was a master at ...