http://ilikeyourart.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/graphic-interpretation-of-in-the-waiting-room-by-elizabeth-bishop-draft1/
[A graphic interpretation of "In the Waiting Room," by "LJKA" -- JB].
Monday, August 1, 2011
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Our Poughkeepsie Correspondent Writes --
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY -- A major exhibit and symposium organized by the Vassar College Libraries will mark the centenary of the acclaimed poet Elizabeth Bishop, a 1934 Vassar graduate who earned the Pulitzer Prize and many other major U.S. literary honors before her death in 1979. Central to these upcoming events are the unmatched Elizabeth Bishop Papers housed at the college’s Archives and Special Collections Library, which play a vital research role for scholars, writers, and editors from around the world. Notably, these programs dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop are part of Vassar’s special year-long celebration of the sesquicentennial of its founding.
About the exhibit
“From the Archive: Discovering Elizabeth Bishop”
August 30-December 15
Thompson Memorial Library
Curator Ronald Patkus, the Head of Special Collections at the Vassar College Libraries, asked ten Elizabeth Bishop scholars and editors (Joelle Biele, Lorrie Goldensohn, Saskia Hamilton, Bethany Hicok, Brett Millier, Barbara Page, Alice Quinn, Camille Roman, Lloyd Schwartz, and Thomas Travisano) to select items from Vassar’s Bishop collection that were important to their writing about the poet. For example, Brett Millier (Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It, University of California Press, 1995) selected a composition book that Bishop used in 1934 right after graduating from college; in the book Millier found four pages of writing about the nuances of island life that suggest the origin of several later Bishop poems. Camille Roman (Elizabeth Bishop’s World War II-Cold War View, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) chose for the exhibit an early draft of the poem “12 O’Clock News,” because discovering it at Vassar led Roman to re-read Bishop’s poetry through the frame of war. Alice Quinn picked two drafts of the unfinished story “Homesickness”; earlier, on the invitation of Bishop’s longtime editor Robert Giroux, Quinn edited a volume of Bishop writings that only reside in the Vassar collection (Edgar Allan Poe & The Jukebox: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments By Elizabeth Bishop, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006).
About the symposium
September 24
Taylor Hall
Hartwick College professor Thomas Travisano will moderate a morning discussion “On Editing Bishop,” with panelists Alice Quinn, Lloyd Schwartz, Saskia Hamilton, and Joelle Biele. Barbara Page, Professor Emeritus at Vassar College, will moderate an afternoon discussion “On Teaching Bishop” with panelists Beth Spires, Lorrie Goldensohn, and Jane Shore. The symposium culminates with a keynote address by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, who will also read his new poem dedicated to Vassar’s sesquicentennial and commissioned by the college for the occasion.
About Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (8 February 1911- 6 October 1979) stands as a major mid-twentieth century American poet, whose influence has been felt among several subsequent generations of poets. Her many prizes included the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, two Guggenheims, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and Brazil's Order of Rio Branco. Bishop's first book of poems, North & South, appeared in 1946; the second, Poems (including North & South and A Cold Spring), in 1955; the third, Questions of Travel, in 1965, and the last, Geography III, in 1976. A one-time Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Bishop also published several poems in The New Yorker, wrote a number of distinctive short stories, and translated poems and prose in three languages, She wrote a volume in the Life World Library on Brazil, and co-edited An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry.
About the Elizabeth Bishop Papers at the Vassar College Libraries
Originally acquired by Vassar College in 1981 from the poet’s estate, the premiere Elizabeth Bishop repository consists of correspondence, personal papers, working papers, notebooks, diaries, and memorabilia, as well as a substantial amount of material by and about the poet’s friends and colleagues. Among the collection are over 3,500 pages of drafts of poems and prose; over 200 letters from poet Marianne Moore discussing their work and mutual friends; and over 200 letters from poet Robert Lowell discussing their work, Bishop’s influence on his work, as well as such prominent writers as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O'Connor, and Mary McCarthy.
Vassar has steadily expanded its Bishop collection through donations, bequests, and purchases. “These additions have been both significant and sizeable,” writes curator Ronald Patkus for the publication accompanying the Elizabeth Bishop papers exhibit. “As in the original acquisition, they include a variety of materials, but especially correspondence with friends and fellow poets, such as James Merrill, Emmanuel Brasil, and Lloyd Frankenberg. One of the most important additions came in 2002, when the college acquired a collection from the Portinari family in Brazil, which contained among other things Bishop’s baby book; letters to friends from around the time of her partner Lota’s death; two watercolors; and an annotated copy of the book Brazil, edited by Bishop and first published in 1962.”
Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential, liberal arts college founded in 1861.
PUBLIC CONTACT: Vassar College Libraries, (845) 437-5760, Office of Campus
Activities, (845) 437-5370
PRESS CONTACT: Jeff Kosmacher, Director of Media Relations & Public Affairs,
(845) 437-7404, jekosmacher@vassar.edu
About the exhibit
“From the Archive: Discovering Elizabeth Bishop”
August 30-December 15
Thompson Memorial Library
Curator Ronald Patkus, the Head of Special Collections at the Vassar College Libraries, asked ten Elizabeth Bishop scholars and editors (Joelle Biele, Lorrie Goldensohn, Saskia Hamilton, Bethany Hicok, Brett Millier, Barbara Page, Alice Quinn, Camille Roman, Lloyd Schwartz, and Thomas Travisano) to select items from Vassar’s Bishop collection that were important to their writing about the poet. For example, Brett Millier (Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It, University of California Press, 1995) selected a composition book that Bishop used in 1934 right after graduating from college; in the book Millier found four pages of writing about the nuances of island life that suggest the origin of several later Bishop poems. Camille Roman (Elizabeth Bishop’s World War II-Cold War View, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) chose for the exhibit an early draft of the poem “12 O’Clock News,” because discovering it at Vassar led Roman to re-read Bishop’s poetry through the frame of war. Alice Quinn picked two drafts of the unfinished story “Homesickness”; earlier, on the invitation of Bishop’s longtime editor Robert Giroux, Quinn edited a volume of Bishop writings that only reside in the Vassar collection (Edgar Allan Poe & The Jukebox: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments By Elizabeth Bishop, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006).
About the symposium
September 24
Taylor Hall
Hartwick College professor Thomas Travisano will moderate a morning discussion “On Editing Bishop,” with panelists Alice Quinn, Lloyd Schwartz, Saskia Hamilton, and Joelle Biele. Barbara Page, Professor Emeritus at Vassar College, will moderate an afternoon discussion “On Teaching Bishop” with panelists Beth Spires, Lorrie Goldensohn, and Jane Shore. The symposium culminates with a keynote address by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, who will also read his new poem dedicated to Vassar’s sesquicentennial and commissioned by the college for the occasion.
About Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (8 February 1911- 6 October 1979) stands as a major mid-twentieth century American poet, whose influence has been felt among several subsequent generations of poets. Her many prizes included the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, two Guggenheims, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and Brazil's Order of Rio Branco. Bishop's first book of poems, North & South, appeared in 1946; the second, Poems (including North & South and A Cold Spring), in 1955; the third, Questions of Travel, in 1965, and the last, Geography III, in 1976. A one-time Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Bishop also published several poems in The New Yorker, wrote a number of distinctive short stories, and translated poems and prose in three languages, She wrote a volume in the Life World Library on Brazil, and co-edited An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry.
About the Elizabeth Bishop Papers at the Vassar College Libraries
Originally acquired by Vassar College in 1981 from the poet’s estate, the premiere Elizabeth Bishop repository consists of correspondence, personal papers, working papers, notebooks, diaries, and memorabilia, as well as a substantial amount of material by and about the poet’s friends and colleagues. Among the collection are over 3,500 pages of drafts of poems and prose; over 200 letters from poet Marianne Moore discussing their work and mutual friends; and over 200 letters from poet Robert Lowell discussing their work, Bishop’s influence on his work, as well as such prominent writers as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O'Connor, and Mary McCarthy.
Vassar has steadily expanded its Bishop collection through donations, bequests, and purchases. “These additions have been both significant and sizeable,” writes curator Ronald Patkus for the publication accompanying the Elizabeth Bishop papers exhibit. “As in the original acquisition, they include a variety of materials, but especially correspondence with friends and fellow poets, such as James Merrill, Emmanuel Brasil, and Lloyd Frankenberg. One of the most important additions came in 2002, when the college acquired a collection from the Portinari family in Brazil, which contained among other things Bishop’s baby book; letters to friends from around the time of her partner Lota’s death; two watercolors; and an annotated copy of the book Brazil, edited by Bishop and first published in 1962.”
Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential, liberal arts college founded in 1861.
PUBLIC CONTACT: Vassar College Libraries, (845) 437-5760, Office of Campus
Activities, (845) 437-5370
PRESS CONTACT: Jeff Kosmacher, Director of Media Relations & Public Affairs,
(845) 437-7404, jekosmacher@vassar.edu
Our Worcester Correspondent Writes --
Robert Pinsky and Chares Simic, both former poets laureate of the United States, will give poetry readings at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St., Worcester.
The readings are part of the Worcester County Poetry Association's “EB100” celebrations to honor the 100th birthday this year of Pulitzer Prize-winning Worcester-born poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79). Pinsky and Simic will choose a number of poems by Bishop to read along with their own works.
The readings are part of a daylong poetry celebration at The Hanover Theatre beginning at noon Aug. 13. The day will include an open mic, tables with books, journals and CDs by local poets and information on the Worcester poetry scene, a public reception and book signings.
All the events are free.
Pinsky was poet laureate from 1997-2000 during which time he founded the “Favorite Poem Project” in which thousands of Americans (of varying backgrounds, all ages, and from every state) shared their favorite poems.
Simic, poet laureate 2007-08, was born in Belgrade and came to this country with his family, living in Chicago. He has been praised for the “stunning and unusual imagery” of his poetry.
A number of EB 100 celebrations have been taking place in Worcester this year to honor Bishop, who more and more is being is being recognized for the quiet and enduring power of her poetry.The readings are part of the Worcester County Poetry Association's “EB100” celebrations to honor the 100th birthday this year of Pulitzer Prize-winning Worcester-born poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79). Pinsky and Simic will choose a number of poems by Bishop to read along with their own works.
The readings are part of a daylong poetry celebration at The Hanover Theatre beginning at noon Aug. 13. The day will include an open mic, tables with books, journals and CDs by local poets and information on the Worcester poetry scene, a public reception and book signings.
All the events are free.
Pinsky was poet laureate from 1997-2000 during which time he founded the “Favorite Poem Project” in which thousands of Americans (of varying backgrounds, all ages, and from every state) shared their favorite poems.
Simic, poet laureate 2007-08, was born in Belgrade and came to this country with his family, living in Chicago. He has been praised for the “stunning and unusual imagery” of his poetry.
-- Richard Duckett, in The Worcester Telegram and Gazette
Thursday, July 28, 2011
| ELIZABETH BISHOP CENTENARY | ARTS FESTIVAL CONCERTS
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| Friday, August 19th 7:30 PM | Lenore Zann and Rosalee Peppard |
 | Lenore Zann will present a dramatic reading from a play about Elizabeth Bishop by playwright Donna Smyth. Truro native Lenore is an award winning actor, writer, and producer with 33 years experience in film, TV, radio and the theatre. |
| Nova Scotia Singer, songwriter Rosalee Peppard will sing from her own repertoire and a new composition written in honour of this special Elizabeth Bishop Arts Festival event. A special bonus - meet the winners of the "In the Village" writing competition. |  |
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| Saturday, August 20th, 7:30 PM | Rankin, Church and Crowe |
 | Delight to the music of three of Canada's foremost female singer songwriters together on this one stage for an oh so very special evening. Each is a distinctive artist. Performing together, they offer more than the sum of those parts. |
| Friends and colleagues Raylene Rankin, Cindy Church, and Susan Crowe, all award winning recording artists, bring their varied musical signatures to the stage in a mix of elegance and accessibility. Folk, country, jazz, contemporary singer-songwriter make for richly textured harmonies and a welcoming rapport that invites audiences in, and makes them want to stay. |  |
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| Sunday, August 21st, 7:30 PM | Suzie Leblanc and Musique Royale |
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This special program features soprano Suzie LeBlanc, David Greenberg and Tempest Baroque Ensemble, and Antigonish author Harry Thurston. A selection of pieces will be sung and played in between and during the reading of the poem ‘At the Fishhouses’ by Elizabeth Bishop. |
| Acadienne Suzie Leblanc is an internationally respected soprano who has performed with the best opera and symphonic companies around the world. This summer she collaborates with Musique Royale to bring us a celebration of music and song in theme with the Centenary Year and this wonderful musical weekend of the Elizabeth Bishop Arts Festival. Merci beaucoup Suzie! |  |
Friday, July 15, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
“These Fine Mornings: Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker”
“These Fine Mornings: Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker”
(written by Joelle Biele)
A Dramatic Reading of the letters between
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Elizabeth Bishop
and her New Yorker editors
based on Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence (2011) edited by Joelle Biele
Readers: John Barnstead, Sandra Barry, Suzie LeBlanc and Harry Thurston
Thursday, 21 July 2011
St. James United Church, Great Village, N.S., 7:00 p.m.
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Free will offering fund-raiser for the Colchester Adult Learning Association
An Elizabeth Bishop Centenary event
These Fine Mornings is a one-act play that tells the story of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker. It uses excerpts from letters between Bishop and editors Charles Pearce, Katharine White, and Howard Moss. Woven between their correspondence are letters Bishop wrote to friends, internal magazine documents, poems, and questions and answers that appear on proofs. Actors do more than one voice. The play was first read at the University of Chicago’s International House and hosted by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the Poetry Founda-tion. These Fine Mornings is being read by contemporary poets at a number of venues as part of the celebration of the centenary of Bishop’s birth.
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Joelle Biele will also be giving a talk about Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Room 254, Haley Institute Building, 58 River Road, at 1:30 p.m., 21 July 2011, as part of the NSAC Annual Open House.
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Joelle Biele is the author of White Summer and the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. A Fulbright scholar in Germany and Poland, she has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Poetry Society of America. Her essays and fiction appear in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, and New England Review. She has taught American literature and creative writing at the University of Maryland, Goucher College, the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and Jagiellonian University, Poland.
About Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker:
"Meticulously researched and comprehensively edited... Biele is a scrupulous and painstaking editor of the correspondence, tracking drafts and letters through archives far beyond the New York Public Library." —Fiona Green, Times Literary Supplement
"One of the pleasures of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker...is snooping around in the excellent footnotes and front matter for the wicked comments she made behind the magazine's back... There are those—and, full disclosure, I am among them—for whom this kind of shop talk from an adored poet and her serious editors is uncut catnip." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Bishop’s long and affectionate relationship with the magazine is thoroughly documented in Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence… Poets and New Yorker aficionados will find it irresistible.” —Dana Gioia, The Wall Street Journal
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The Colchester Adult Learning Association is a charitable non-profit community-based organization and relies on funding and support from groups and individuals who share our belief that every adult should have an equal opportunity to an education. At CALA we believe no one should be left behind no matter what your race, age, or literacy level. The MISSION of the Colchester Adult Learning Association is to assist adults who want to develop skills for lifelong learning so they may participate more fully at home, in the workplace and in the community.
For more information contact Sandra Barry at slbarry@ns.sympatico.ca
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Opening of Two Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Art Exhibitions
Great Village and In the Village Opening on July 5th 2011
Exhibitions are open week days until August 17 at McCarthy Hall, Nova Scotia Community College, Arthur St., Truro, and at the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Arts Festival, August 18, 20, and 21, Great Village Legion
Sponsored by the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia and the Truro Arts Society
Exhibition Coordinator Bruce Gray (right) introduces EBSNS President John Barnstead
On the evening of Tuesday, 5 July, 2011, two art exhibitions opened in Truro. The exhibitions honour the Nova Scotia roots of Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Elizabeth Bishop. The exhibitions are part of a year long Centenary Celebration of her birth and the exhibitions will also be moved to Great Village for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Arts Festival August 19, 20 and 21.
Bruce Gray, the Exhibition Coordinator, welcomed the crowd and introduced Sandra Barry, Nova Scotia’s own Elizabeth Bishop scholar. Sandra captivated the audience with stories about Elizabeth Bishop’s own experiences as a visual artist and as an artist with words. Reading from Bishop’s poem, entitled “Poem,” Barry brought the relevance of Bishops writing full circle and the audience was very interested that the words of an author long dead are still shaping our world.
Bishop scholar Sandra Barry addresses the audience at the exhibition opening.
One of the exhibitions, “In the Village,” asked Maritime Artists to listen to the 55 minute reading of Bishops In the Village at www.elizabethbishop.org. Then artists were challenged to create their own visual works that reflected their own lives. Among the works, Truro photographer, Laurie Gunn did a photo collage called “My Golden Childhood” and Halifax artist Taiya Barss did a painting of a childhood door with childlike drawings scratched into the surface. Shapes of people and events were slowly evident upon close inspection. In this exhibition there was a synergistic energy between the works, because they all delved into personal stories.
Truro Arts Society members Margaret Boyle and Beth McDade view Joy Laking's acrylic self-portrait "In the Marsh" and Laurie Gunn's photo-collage "My Golden Childhood."
The second exhibition , Great Village, was visual works that reflect the village and its location on the shore of the Bay of Fundy. Four weeks ago, artists from around the Maritimes were hosted in Great Village for a weekend of paintings. Many of the works started on this weekend were in the exhibition. Halifax Artists, Susan Tooke and Richard Rudinicki and Portaupique artist, Joy Laking and others all did paintings of the red mud that seems to stretch outward to the horizon at “Low Tide.” Several artists actually captured the house in Great Village where Elizabeth Bishop lived. Two interesting watercolours were done by Ruth Peppard who herself was raised in Great Village like Bishop.
The president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia, John Barnstead, toured the audience around the exhibitions and spoke on behalf of the Society. He closed the evening with a reading from Bishop’s poem “The Moose.”
Exhibitions are open week days until August 17 at McCarthy Hall, Nova Scotia Community College, Arthur St., Truro, and at the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Arts Festival, August 18, 20, and 21, Great Village Legion
Sponsored by the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia and the Truro Arts Society
Exhibition Coordinator Bruce Gray (right) introduces EBSNS President John Barnstead
On the evening of Tuesday, 5 July, 2011, two art exhibitions opened in Truro. The exhibitions honour the Nova Scotia roots of Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Elizabeth Bishop. The exhibitions are part of a year long Centenary Celebration of her birth and the exhibitions will also be moved to Great Village for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Arts Festival August 19, 20 and 21.
Bruce Gray, the Exhibition Coordinator, welcomed the crowd and introduced Sandra Barry, Nova Scotia’s own Elizabeth Bishop scholar. Sandra captivated the audience with stories about Elizabeth Bishop’s own experiences as a visual artist and as an artist with words. Reading from Bishop’s poem, entitled “Poem,” Barry brought the relevance of Bishops writing full circle and the audience was very interested that the words of an author long dead are still shaping our world.
Bishop scholar Sandra Barry addresses the audience at the exhibition opening.
One of the exhibitions, “In the Village,” asked Maritime Artists to listen to the 55 minute reading of Bishops In the Village at www.elizabethbishop.org. Then artists were challenged to create their own visual works that reflected their own lives. Among the works, Truro photographer, Laurie Gunn did a photo collage called “My Golden Childhood” and Halifax artist Taiya Barss did a painting of a childhood door with childlike drawings scratched into the surface. Shapes of people and events were slowly evident upon close inspection. In this exhibition there was a synergistic energy between the works, because they all delved into personal stories.
Truro Arts Society members Margaret Boyle and Beth McDade view Joy Laking's acrylic self-portrait "In the Marsh" and Laurie Gunn's photo-collage "My Golden Childhood."
The second exhibition , Great Village, was visual works that reflect the village and its location on the shore of the Bay of Fundy. Four weeks ago, artists from around the Maritimes were hosted in Great Village for a weekend of paintings. Many of the works started on this weekend were in the exhibition. Halifax Artists, Susan Tooke and Richard Rudinicki and Portaupique artist, Joy Laking and others all did paintings of the red mud that seems to stretch outward to the horizon at “Low Tide.” Several artists actually captured the house in Great Village where Elizabeth Bishop lived. Two interesting watercolours were done by Ruth Peppard who herself was raised in Great Village like Bishop.
The president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia, John Barnstead, toured the audience around the exhibitions and spoke on behalf of the Society. He closed the evening with a reading from Bishop’s poem “The Moose.”
Saturday, June 25, 2011
FIRST ENCOUNTER XXXIV: "Profundidad de la superficie" -- a poem for Elizabeth Bishop by Yolanda Pantin
Profundidad de la superficie
Lo que no saben tus amigos
es que en Great Village, Nueva Escocia,
vivió aquella poeta que tanto hemos leído
y a la que hubiésemos querido visitar
en una peregrinación a sus orígenes,
que es como decir, a su mirada,
recién nacida al mundo
cuando el grito de su madre
se escuchó en todo el pueblo,
hasta su confinamiento.
No gaitas gaélicas,
sino una niña huérfana
que leía el National Geographic
en los consultorios médicos.
De manera que en el relato de viaje
que ahora escuchamos
falta un detalle, qué digo,
el phatos de esa geografía
que ofrece al dolor
madera blanda, escribió LoweIl,
y focas moviendo sus cabezas
igual que girasoles.
Pedalear hasta la orilla,
en una de las islas,
quince millas sin descanso,
entre pescaderías,
siguiendo el rastro que supongo
de rudos navegantes, no
te hará dueño de algo.
Ni haber vivido algunos días,
como nosotras lo hicimos
en aquel poblado, compartiendo
una rutina de trabajo.
Pero ambas tenemos un secreto
que el ímpetu de ese nuevo recorrido,
hoteles, carreteras, barcos que acarrean
bicicletas, de Maine a Nueva Escocia,
no nos habrá robado.
Discreción es la palabra, reticencia, tal
resumen la poética de Elizabeth Bishop.
No nos pertenece su experiencia, desde luego,
ni otro itinerario, pero sobre la brillante superficie
de esos paisajes que hemos anhelado, sí,
haber reconocido por ella
la profundidad de su desconcierto.
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YOLANDA PANTIN (born in Caracas, 1954) studied letters at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. She was associated with the women poets known as "generación78" and was a member of the "Tráfico" group. She was one of the founders of the Editorial Pequeña Venecia and of the Casa de la Poesía, and has won many poetry prizes. In 2004 she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. She is the author of ten books of poetry; her work was collected in Poesía reunida 1981-2002 (Otero ediciones, Caracas, 2004). She has also published children's books.
Lo que no saben tus amigos
es que en Great Village, Nueva Escocia,
vivió aquella poeta que tanto hemos leído
y a la que hubiésemos querido visitar
en una peregrinación a sus orígenes,
que es como decir, a su mirada,
recién nacida al mundo
cuando el grito de su madre
se escuchó en todo el pueblo,
hasta su confinamiento.
No gaitas gaélicas,
sino una niña huérfana
que leía el National Geographic
en los consultorios médicos.
De manera que en el relato de viaje
que ahora escuchamos
falta un detalle, qué digo,
el phatos de esa geografía
que ofrece al dolor
madera blanda, escribió LoweIl,
y focas moviendo sus cabezas
igual que girasoles.
Pedalear hasta la orilla,
en una de las islas,
quince millas sin descanso,
entre pescaderías,
siguiendo el rastro que supongo
de rudos navegantes, no
te hará dueño de algo.
Ni haber vivido algunos días,
como nosotras lo hicimos
en aquel poblado, compartiendo
una rutina de trabajo.
Pero ambas tenemos un secreto
que el ímpetu de ese nuevo recorrido,
hoteles, carreteras, barcos que acarrean
bicicletas, de Maine a Nueva Escocia,
no nos habrá robado.
Discreción es la palabra, reticencia, tal
resumen la poética de Elizabeth Bishop.
No nos pertenece su experiencia, desde luego,
ni otro itinerario, pero sobre la brillante superficie
de esos paisajes que hemos anhelado, sí,
haber reconocido por ella
la profundidad de su desconcierto.
******
YOLANDA PANTIN (born in Caracas, 1954) studied letters at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. She was associated with the women poets known as "generación78" and was a member of the "Tráfico" group. She was one of the founders of the Editorial Pequeña Venecia and of the Casa de la Poesía, and has won many poetry prizes. In 2004 she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. She is the author of ten books of poetry; her work was collected in Poesía reunida 1981-2002 (Otero ediciones, Caracas, 2004). She has also published children's books.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
“In the Village”: The Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Writing Competition, 2011, Winners
On 18 June 2011, at its Annual General Meeting, the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia announced the winners of the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Writing Competition. The winners have been notified and have been invited to attend the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Arts Festival, 19-21 August, at which time they will receive their prizes and read their winning stories. While not all winners will be able to attend, we are excited to say that a number of them will be present, including our First Prize winner in the Adult (Open), who is from Australia. The awards ceremonies and readings for the various categories will take place throughout the day on Friday, 19 August 2011. For those winers who are not able to attend, arrangements will be made for their submission to be read. The Writing Competition committee will be in touch with everyone who submitted and all participants are invited and most welcome to attend the Arts Festival. Our judges had a difficult time choosing the winners and were impressed by the overall calibre of submissions. The Writing Competition Committee and the EBSNS are grateful to everyone who submitted their work for consideration. We had 106 entries, submitted to all categories. For more information about the competition, the winners and the awards ceremonies, contact Laurie Gunn at laurieegunn@ns.sympatico.ca or Sandra Barry at slbarry@ns.sympatico.ca
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Category – Grades 4-6
First place:
Dakota Warren
Neil’s Harbour, Nova Scotia
Second place:
Maria Duynsiveld
Wallace, Nova Scotia
Third place:
Lauren Kruisselbrink
Kentville, Nova Scotia
Honorable mention:
Ryan Spencer
Great Village, Nova Scotia
Category – Grades 7-9
First place:
Elizabeth Schofield
Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Honorable mention:
Ryan Atkinson
Centre Burlington, Nova Scotia
Category – Grades 10-12
First place:
Aaron Holland
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Second place:
Tiffany Vincent
Cornerbrook, Newfoundland
Third place:
Morgan Illsley
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Honorable mention:
Chris Creene
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Category – Post-secondary
Honorable mention:
Sarah Giragosian
Albany, New York
Category – Adult
First place:
Moya Pacey
Garran, Australia
Second place:
Mary Jo Anderson
Banff, Alberta
Third place:
Anne Pollett
Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia
Honorable mention:
Mary Verna Feehan
Providence, Rhode Island
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Category – Grades 4-6
First place:
Dakota Warren
Neil’s Harbour, Nova Scotia
Second place:
Maria Duynsiveld
Wallace, Nova Scotia
Third place:
Lauren Kruisselbrink
Kentville, Nova Scotia
Honorable mention:
Ryan Spencer
Great Village, Nova Scotia
Category – Grades 7-9
First place:
Elizabeth Schofield
Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Honorable mention:
Ryan Atkinson
Centre Burlington, Nova Scotia
Category – Grades 10-12
First place:
Aaron Holland
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Second place:
Tiffany Vincent
Cornerbrook, Newfoundland
Third place:
Morgan Illsley
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Honorable mention:
Chris Creene
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Category – Post-secondary
Honorable mention:
Sarah Giragosian
Albany, New York
Category – Adult
First place:
Moya Pacey
Garran, Australia
Second place:
Mary Jo Anderson
Banff, Alberta
Third place:
Anne Pollett
Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia
Honorable mention:
Mary Verna Feehan
Providence, Rhode Island
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Rose-Coloured Glasses
Offered the choice I ask for you to choose:
you boggle (“Is my tessitura showing?”),
then proffer me the shorter of the two.
An awkward kiss. I never can remember
which cheek one ought to turn or just how many
times one's lips slip – right to left to right?
I lift it to the light. Striations, bubbles,
some stippled streaks of dots and dashes... scratches
left behind by vehement Old-Fashioneds?
Manhattans left behind on fascist liners –
the cheapest way to Europe in the thirties?
A Brocken bow’s adiabatic site?
Where have I seen them? Yes, I know! – the panes
of wavy glass her lace-hung parlour window
opens to the CAUTION sign outside
the house she grew up in, across from where
the Esso station stood once, oily, homely, –
it’s Wilsons Gas Stops now, of course, at night
as noisy as the spot it’s filled was filthy.
The Harleys belch their little mushroom clouds
as kids race up and squeal their tires and giggle
in G# voices, chains and leather jackets.
One young man dismounts, his fresh-lit Marl-
boro cigarette (imported) drips pink light
on handlebars through still-cupped palm and fingers.
The rain commences, making water music
out of sync with kettle hiss and whistle
drawing me from the window to the kitchen.
I take the almanac from where it hangs
fastened by a steam-damp length of white –
– No. That isn’t string. It’s more like twine.
One end is frazzled where a scrap of paper
dangles still: a smudge of inch-worm green
almost occludes the couple words remaining.
“Rented...
But bank of what? Of roses? No. Too trite –
Anyhow, her house (the first of three)
is yet to come. I’m heading there next week
to decompress and maybe to compose
some sort of thank-you note to you, dear Suzie,
not just for bringing me the armadillo
carved from soapstone, or the nifty slight-
ly scratched - but reeking all the more of meaning! -
drinking glass you got in Ouro Preto –
No. Most of all for you. Your глаз. Your глас.
– The Russian ‘glaçes’ can mean both ‘eye’ and ‘voice’. –
Two glasses. One for S. One - MCB.
Three merging ‘looks’. Three plovers taking flight.
Monday, June 20, 2011
News from Halifax
Elizabeth Bishop's photograph graced the front page of the Sunday, June 19, 2011 edition of the Halifax Chronicle Herald, which included a substantial illustrated article about Bishop's connection with Great Village by Lois Legge. The web edition of the newspaper reproduces the article, and also includes three video presentations. These may be found at the following URL:
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1249257.html
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Our New York Correspondent Writes --
Elizabeth Bishop: A Discussion of Her Life and Legacy
| Event Type: | Poetry Reading |
|---|---|
| Event Date and Time: | July 14, 2011 |
| Venue: (map) | Madison Square Park At the foot of the Farragut Monument; 25th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues New York, NY |
For further information contact:
Leslie Shipman
212-685-0261
www.nationalbook.org
Thursday, June 16, 2011
The Literary Litter of the Littoral-Minded: Elizabeth Bishop's Ideas of Disorder at Key West
[Over the next few weeks we will be posting links to video and audio recordings of some of the presentations given at the recent Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Conference at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our first speaker is Zachariah Wells of the University of New Brunswick. -- JB]
Zachariah Wells[photo: John W. MacDonald]
The Literary Litter of the Littoral-Minded:
Elizabeth Bishop's Ideas of Disorder at Key West
Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Bight" is a work of almost pure description. Embedded in, and protruding through, the sheer surface of Bishop's poem, however, are a number of literary allusions. Those allusions orient the poem and its author in relation to a number of important precursors, including Baudelaire, Hopkins, Herbert, Wordsworth, Whitman, Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens. In each case, Bishop encodes a fraught exchange, establishing affinities and asserting independence. The explicit subject of "The Bight" is the harbour of Key West, but my reading of the poem demonstrates that it is also concerned with "place" as status, as Bishop negotiates her relationship with the literary canon to which she now unequivocally belongs.
This paper is a condensed excerpt taken from a long essay on "The Bight." Another excerpt will be published soon by The Worcester Review.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
EBSNS - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
18 June 2011, 1:30 p.m.
Great Village Legion, Great Village, N.S.
~ DISSOLVE IN A DAZZLING DIALECTIC!! ~
In this year of celebration of Elizabeth Bishop’s 100th birthday, the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia is marking its 17th year of existence. Since 1994, the EBSNS has been commited to raising awareness of Elizabeth Bishop’s life and work and of her strong connection to Nova Scotia. The EBSNS is centrally involved in many activities and events to mark Bishop’s centenary, so this year’s AGM will be part birthday party and part celebration update.
After a brief business meeting (to which all are welcome), members of the EBSNS and the public are invited to stay and hear all the exciting news and learn more about the wonderful events yet to come:
Official announcement of winners of “In the Village”: The Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Writing Competition.
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Unveiling of brochure for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Arts Festival,
taking place in Great Village on 19-21 August 2011.
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Sandra Barry, author of Elizabeth Bishop: Nova Scotia’s “Home-Made Poet” will be present to sign copies of her book.
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Talk with some of the artists involved in upcoming EB100 events.
~ A YEAR OF CELEBRATIONS ~
EB100: The Elizabeth Bishop Centenary celebration in Nova Scotia will be a series of events and activities (concerts, lectures, exhibits, readings, kitchen parties, tours, publications, etc.) Because Bishop was born on 8 February 1911 and died on 6 October 1979, events will occur throughout the province and across this time span, but four points during the year — winter, spring, summer and fall — will bring a particular concentration of activity.
In addition to the events in Great Village and Halifax, many artists — writers, musicians, painters, film-makers, photographers, actors, dancers, artisans, etc. — arts groups and universities in Nova Scotia will create events to mark the centenary.
The Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia is Canada’s only society devoted to celebrating the life and art of the poet Elizabeth Bishop. Educating Nova Scotians and the world about her deep and abiding connections to the province is its purpose.
Who to contact? John Barnstead, President, EBSNS, EB100 committeeEmail: bishopcentenary@gmail.com Sandra Barry, Secretary, EBSNS, EB100 committeeEmail: slbarry@ns.sympatico.ca Joy Laking, EBSNS, EB Centenary Arts Festival committee: laking.joy@gmail.com | Where to find out additional information? Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia:http://www.elizabethbishopns.org Elizabeth Bishop Centenary blog: http://elizabethbishopcentenary.blogspot.com Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Events website:http://elizabethbishopcelebration.ca |
TODAY'S EVENTS -- "It Must Be Nova Scotia: Negotiating Place in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop"
SUNDAY, 12 JUNE 2011
Coffee – 2nd floor A&A Building
9:00—10:30 a.m. Sessions
Geography V
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Jonathan Ellis
• Sandra Barry, “Shipwrecks and Housewrecks: Elizabeth Bishop’s Sable Island Journal”
• Silvia Maria Guerra Anastásio, Federal University of Bahai, “A Haven for Elizabeth Bishop.”
• Corey Clawson, Utah State University, “Poetic Flyways: Birds as Poets and Travelers in thePoetry and Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson”
Ekphrasis, Rhetoric and Autobiograpy
Location: Board Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Deborah Kennedy
• Joshua Steffey, Marquette University, WI, “Elizabeth Bishop Looking: Portraits of the Artist as a Blind Woman”
• Cynthia Messenger, University of Toronto, “The Rhetoric of an American Voice in Bishop’s Letters and Verse”
• Andre Furlani, Concordia University, “‘irrepairable (rhyme)’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Homesickness”
10:30—11:00 a.m. Coffee Break – 2nd floor A&A Building
11:00 a.m.—12:30 p.m.
Finale: Round Table
Location: Alumni Hall
Chair: Alexander MacLeod
Participants: Eleanor Cook, Suzie LeBlanc, Colm Tóibín, Thomas Travisano
**********
2:00-3:30 p.m., boarding at 1:45 p.m.
Halifax Harbour Cruise (http:www.mtcw.ca/FleetMarII.php), together with participants
from the “a past that never has been present”: International Art – Philosophy –
History Conference (www.originary past.ca) aboard the Mar II Departure from Queen’s
Wharf (behind the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic on Lower Water Street). Free of
charge (with cash bar on board)
Coffee – 2nd floor A&A Building
9:00—10:30 a.m. Sessions
Geography V
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Jonathan Ellis
• Sandra Barry, “Shipwrecks and Housewrecks: Elizabeth Bishop’s Sable Island Journal”
• Silvia Maria Guerra Anastásio, Federal University of Bahai, “A Haven for Elizabeth Bishop.”
• Corey Clawson, Utah State University, “Poetic Flyways: Birds as Poets and Travelers in thePoetry and Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson”
Ekphrasis, Rhetoric and Autobiograpy
Location: Board Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Deborah Kennedy
• Joshua Steffey, Marquette University, WI, “Elizabeth Bishop Looking: Portraits of the Artist as a Blind Woman”
• Cynthia Messenger, University of Toronto, “The Rhetoric of an American Voice in Bishop’s Letters and Verse”
• Andre Furlani, Concordia University, “‘irrepairable (rhyme)’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Homesickness”
10:30—11:00 a.m. Coffee Break – 2nd floor A&A Building
11:00 a.m.—12:30 p.m.
Finale: Round Table
Location: Alumni Hall
Chair: Alexander MacLeod
Participants: Eleanor Cook, Suzie LeBlanc, Colm Tóibín, Thomas Travisano
**********
2:00-3:30 p.m., boarding at 1:45 p.m.
Halifax Harbour Cruise (http:www.mtcw.ca/FleetMarII.php), together with participants
from the “a past that never has been present”: International Art – Philosophy –
History Conference (www.originary past.ca) aboard the Mar II Departure from Queen’s
Wharf (behind the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic on Lower Water Street). Free of
charge (with cash bar on board)
Saturday, June 11, 2011
TODAY'S EVENTS -- "It Must Be Nova Scotia: Negotiating Place in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop"
SATURDAY, 11 JUNE 2011
8:00—9:00 a.m. Registration/Coffee – 2nd floor Arts & Admin. Building Kings University.
9:00—10:30 a.m. Session
Space, Orientation and Disorientation
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Louise Burley
• David Jarraway, University of Ottawa, “‘The Play Between the Spaces’: Elizabeth Bishop, Frank Gehry, and The Problematic of ‘Home’”
• Paola Nardi, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, “Creolized spaces in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”
• Ross Leckie, University of New Brunswick, “Disorientation, Blank Spots, and Vertigo in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”
Money and Science
Location: Board Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Cynthia Messenger
• Eric Lindstrom, University of Vermont, “Money, Painting, and ‘Poem’: Elizabeth Bishop’s World Picture”
• Leslie Wooten, Arizona State University, “Elizabeth Bishop: Revisioning Charles Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection”
• Kristen Reed, University College – Virginia Commonwealth University, “Symmetry and
Self: Martin Gardner, Elizabeth Bishop, and ‘The Gentleman of Shalott’”
10:45 a.m. – Loading of bus
11:00 a.m. – Depart for Great Village
12:30 p.m. – Arrive in Great Village
12:30—2:30 p.m. Box lunch pick up – St. James United Church – Touring Great Village and the Elizabeth Bishop House – Tour Guides: Sandra Barry, Jonathan Ellis
2:30—4:00 p.m. Session
Sanctuary, St. James United Church
Chair: Sandra Barry
Literally In the Village
• Brian Bartlett reading “In Bishop’s Village”
• Tomas Travisano, Hartwick College, “Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of Three Nations?”
• Michiru Oguchi, Japan, “The ‘Pitch’ of the Village”
• Susie DeCoste, University of Waterloo, “‘How Late to Have Begun Your Travels!: Maritime Regional Identity in Bishop’s ‘Memories of Uncle Neddy’”
4:15 p.m. – Depart from Great Village
5:45 p.m. – Arrive in Halifax
6:00—7:30 p.m. – Free time
7:30—9:00 p.m.
Marie Claire Blais on Elizabeth Bishop – Alumni Hall
9:00 p.m. – Post talk reception – King’s University Library
8:00—9:00 a.m. Registration/Coffee – 2nd floor Arts & Admin. Building Kings University.
9:00—10:30 a.m. Session
Space, Orientation and Disorientation
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Louise Burley
• David Jarraway, University of Ottawa, “‘The Play Between the Spaces’: Elizabeth Bishop, Frank Gehry, and The Problematic of ‘Home’”
• Paola Nardi, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, “Creolized spaces in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”
• Ross Leckie, University of New Brunswick, “Disorientation, Blank Spots, and Vertigo in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”
Money and Science
Location: Board Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Cynthia Messenger
• Eric Lindstrom, University of Vermont, “Money, Painting, and ‘Poem’: Elizabeth Bishop’s World Picture”
• Leslie Wooten, Arizona State University, “Elizabeth Bishop: Revisioning Charles Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection”
• Kristen Reed, University College – Virginia Commonwealth University, “Symmetry and
Self: Martin Gardner, Elizabeth Bishop, and ‘The Gentleman of Shalott’”
10:45 a.m. – Loading of bus
11:00 a.m. – Depart for Great Village
12:30 p.m. – Arrive in Great Village
12:30—2:30 p.m. Box lunch pick up – St. James United Church – Touring Great Village and the Elizabeth Bishop House – Tour Guides: Sandra Barry, Jonathan Ellis
2:30—4:00 p.m. Session
Sanctuary, St. James United Church
Chair: Sandra Barry
Literally In the Village
• Brian Bartlett reading “In Bishop’s Village”
• Tomas Travisano, Hartwick College, “Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of Three Nations?”
• Michiru Oguchi, Japan, “The ‘Pitch’ of the Village”
• Susie DeCoste, University of Waterloo, “‘How Late to Have Begun Your Travels!: Maritime Regional Identity in Bishop’s ‘Memories of Uncle Neddy’”
4:15 p.m. – Depart from Great Village
5:45 p.m. – Arrive in Halifax
6:00—7:30 p.m. – Free time
7:30—9:00 p.m.
Marie Claire Blais on Elizabeth Bishop – Alumni Hall
9:00 p.m. – Post talk reception – King’s University Library
Friday, June 10, 2011
TODAY'S EVENTS -- "It Must Be Nova Scotia: Negotiating Place in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop"
FRIDAY, 10 JUNE 2011
8:00—9:00 a.m. Registration/Coffee – 2nd floor Arts & Administration Building, Kings University.
9:00—10:30 a.m. Sessions
Key West
Location: Board Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Ross Leckie
• Zachariah Wells, University of New Brunswick, “The Literary Litter of the Littoral-Minded: Elizabeth Bishop’s Ideas of Disorder at Key West”
• Adele Barclay, McGill University, “Subjective Geographies: Questions of Epistemology, Poetry, and Place in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry and Letters”
• Marvin Campbell, University of Virginia, “‘Doing More with Key West’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Hemispheric Turn”
Translation
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: John Barnstead
• Orlando Jose Hernandez, Hostos Community College-CUNY, “Elizabeth Bishop and Translation: A Geography of Cultural Exchanges”
• Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese, University of Copenhagan, “How Clouds Change Shape in Eighteen Words: ‘Sestina’ and its Two Polish Translations”
• Shao-Pin Luo, Dalhousie University, “The ‘One Art’ of Translation: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Translations of Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘One Art’”
10:30—11:00 a.m. Coffee Break – President’s Lodge
11:00a.m.—12:30 p.m. Sessions
Geography IV
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Susie DeCoste
• Linda Anderson, Newcastle University, UK, “Dubious Topography: Space and Time in Bishop’s ‘The End of March’”
• J.R. Carpenter, University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, “Writing Coastlines: Estuaries, Islands and Beaches in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop”
• Kelly C. MacPhail, Université de Montreal, “Geography of the Poem: Elizabeth Bishop’s Form and the Production of Meaning”
Bishop and Others (Herbert, Hopkins, Moore, Auden, Heaney)
Location: Board Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Brian Bartlett
• Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield, UK, “Bishop’s England”
• Vidyan Ravinthiran, Balliol College, Oxford, UK, “Auden and Bishop: Another Look at ‘At the Fishhouses’”
• Connor O’Callaghan, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, “Hyphens by Hopkins: The Compounding Influence of Hopkins on Bishop, of Bishop on Heaney”
12:30—1:30 p.m. LUNCH – Prince Hall
1:30—2:30 p.m. Session
Reminiscences of Elizabeth Bishop
Location: Alumni Hall
Alexander MacLeod in conversation with David Staines about Elizabeth Bishop.
2:30—3:00 p.m. Coffee Break – 2nd floor Arts and Admin. Building (outside Board Room)
3:00—4:30 p.m. Sessions
On “Crusoe in England”
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Peter O’Brien
• Sue Goyette reading: “On Hearing Elizabeth Bishop Read Her ‘Crusoe in England’”
• David Wheatley, University of Hull, UK, “‘Now I live here, another island’: Elizabeth Bishop, ‘Crusoe in England’, and the Importance of Elsewhere”
• Sara Meyer, Gordon College of Education, Haifa, Israel, “The ‘Un-Rediscovered, Un-Renamable’ Island—Exile, Placenessess, and the Poetics of Autobiography in Bishop’s ‘Crusoe in England’”
Miniature and Maternal
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Len Diepeveen
• Anne Shifrer, Utah State University, “Home Bodies: The Somatic in Elizabeth Bishop’s May Swenson’s Recollections of Home”
• Anne Koval, Mount Allison University, “The Miniature World of Elizabeth Bishop”
5:30—7:30 p.m. – Official Reception – President’s Lodge (food and wine)
7:30—9:30 p.m.
Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop.
Location: Alumni Hall
8:00—9:00 a.m. Registration/Coffee – 2nd floor Arts & Administration Building, Kings University.
9:00—10:30 a.m. Sessions
Key West
Location: Board Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Ross Leckie
• Zachariah Wells, University of New Brunswick, “The Literary Litter of the Littoral-Minded: Elizabeth Bishop’s Ideas of Disorder at Key West”
• Adele Barclay, McGill University, “Subjective Geographies: Questions of Epistemology, Poetry, and Place in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry and Letters”
• Marvin Campbell, University of Virginia, “‘Doing More with Key West’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Hemispheric Turn”
Translation
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: John Barnstead
• Orlando Jose Hernandez, Hostos Community College-CUNY, “Elizabeth Bishop and Translation: A Geography of Cultural Exchanges”
• Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese, University of Copenhagan, “How Clouds Change Shape in Eighteen Words: ‘Sestina’ and its Two Polish Translations”
• Shao-Pin Luo, Dalhousie University, “The ‘One Art’ of Translation: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Translations of Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘One Art’”
10:30—11:00 a.m. Coffee Break – President’s Lodge
11:00a.m.—12:30 p.m. Sessions
Geography IV
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Susie DeCoste
• Linda Anderson, Newcastle University, UK, “Dubious Topography: Space and Time in Bishop’s ‘The End of March’”
• J.R. Carpenter, University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, “Writing Coastlines: Estuaries, Islands and Beaches in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop”
• Kelly C. MacPhail, Université de Montreal, “Geography of the Poem: Elizabeth Bishop’s Form and the Production of Meaning”
Bishop and Others (Herbert, Hopkins, Moore, Auden, Heaney)
Location: Board Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Brian Bartlett
• Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield, UK, “Bishop’s England”
• Vidyan Ravinthiran, Balliol College, Oxford, UK, “Auden and Bishop: Another Look at ‘At the Fishhouses’”
• Connor O’Callaghan, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, “Hyphens by Hopkins: The Compounding Influence of Hopkins on Bishop, of Bishop on Heaney”
12:30—1:30 p.m. LUNCH – Prince Hall
1:30—2:30 p.m. Session
Reminiscences of Elizabeth Bishop
Location: Alumni Hall
Alexander MacLeod in conversation with David Staines about Elizabeth Bishop.
2:30—3:00 p.m. Coffee Break – 2nd floor Arts and Admin. Building (outside Board Room)
3:00—4:30 p.m. Sessions
On “Crusoe in England”
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Peter O’Brien
• Sue Goyette reading: “On Hearing Elizabeth Bishop Read Her ‘Crusoe in England’”
• David Wheatley, University of Hull, UK, “‘Now I live here, another island’: Elizabeth Bishop, ‘Crusoe in England’, and the Importance of Elsewhere”
• Sara Meyer, Gordon College of Education, Haifa, Israel, “The ‘Un-Rediscovered, Un-Renamable’ Island—Exile, Placenessess, and the Poetics of Autobiography in Bishop’s ‘Crusoe in England’”
Miniature and Maternal
Location: Haliburton Room (A&A Building)
Chair: Len Diepeveen
• Anne Shifrer, Utah State University, “Home Bodies: The Somatic in Elizabeth Bishop’s May Swenson’s Recollections of Home”
• Anne Koval, Mount Allison University, “The Miniature World of Elizabeth Bishop”
5:30—7:30 p.m. – Official Reception – President’s Lodge (food and wine)
7:30—9:30 p.m.
Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop.
Location: Alumni Hall
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Updated URL for "It Must Be Nova Scotia: Negotiating Place in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop"
Here is a link to further information about the two keynote addresses to be delivered at the upcoming EB100 conference at the University of King's College, June 10 through June 12:
http://www.ukings.ca/event/colm-toibin-and-marie-claire-blais-speak-kings
Bishop scholars from all over the world will be gathering this weekend to ponder her work in Nova Scotia, her childhood home. We hope to see you there!
http://www.ukings.ca/event/colm-toibin-and-marie-claire-blais-speak-kings
Bishop scholars from all over the world will be gathering this weekend to ponder her work in Nova Scotia, her childhood home. We hope to see you there!
Saturday, June 4, 2011
It Must Be Nova Scotia: Negotiating Place in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop
If the amazing Elizabeth Bishop tribute concerts happening now during Scotia Festival of Music are not enough Bishop celebration for Nova Scotians, we are about to host a group of Bishop scholars and devoted readers from around the world for "It Must Be Nova Scotia: Negotiating Place In the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop," a symposium taking place from 9-12 June, 2011, at University of King's College in Halifax. Find out more information about the symposium here.
The symposium starts on Thursday evening with a Scotia Festival concert featuring the world premiere of a setting of Bishop's poem "Brazil, January 1st, 1502" by composer and musician Dinuk Wijeratne. There are three days of amazing presentations, conversations, round tables, and two keynote addresses by Irish writer Colm Toibin and Quebec writer Marie Claire Blais.
We are even exporting the whole event to Great Village -- a session will take place in St. James Church in Great Village, N.S., on Saturday, 11 June 2011, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
At this mid-way point in the celebrations of the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary, Halifax is the place to be!
The symposium starts on Thursday evening with a Scotia Festival concert featuring the world premiere of a setting of Bishop's poem "Brazil, January 1st, 1502" by composer and musician Dinuk Wijeratne. There are three days of amazing presentations, conversations, round tables, and two keynote addresses by Irish writer Colm Toibin and Quebec writer Marie Claire Blais.
We are even exporting the whole event to Great Village -- a session will take place in St. James Church in Great Village, N.S., on Saturday, 11 June 2011, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
At this mid-way point in the celebrations of the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary, Halifax is the place to be!
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