“Celebrating Elizabeth Bishop”
Featuring Lloyd Schwartz
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
5 – 6 PM
Ole Restaurant & Tapas Bar, Side Dining Room
Elizabeth Bishop is one of the great Massachusetts poets. She’s now the first woman poet to have an entire Library of America volume devoted to her work. The co-editor of that landmark edition, poet, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic, and UMass Boston professor Lloyd Schwartz, will talk about her and read her poems.
ABOUT Lloyd Schwartz, UMB MFA Faculty, Troy Professor of English:
Lloyd Schwartz won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. His three books of poems are These People, Goodnight, Gracie, and Cairo Traffic. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Paris Review, and Best American Poetry. Editor of Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art, he is an internationally recognized authority on Bishop’s poetry. An edition of her work he prepared for the Library of America was published in March 2008. He is classical music editor of the Boston Phoenix and a weekly contributor to NPR’s Fresh Air.



