Thursday, February 17, 6:00 PM

Poetry Off the Shelf
Elizabeth Bishop’s Correspondence with the New Yorker
University of Chicago
Home Room
International House
1414 East 59th Street
Free admission

Celebrate the centennial of Elizabeth Bishop’s birth with a behind-the-scenes look at her correspondence with the New Yorker. From 1934 to 1979, Bishop submitted dozens of poems, stories, and essays to the New Yorker. In their letters, Bishop and her editors discuss typography, the placement of commas, and the fact-checkers’ questions while sharing the details of their lives. Actors will read the parts of Bishop and her editors, while Joelle Biele, editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011), will answer questions.

Co-sponsored with the University of Chicago’s Program in Poetry and Poetics