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Elizabeth Bishop: Paintings in Poems
October 11, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This year’s graveside reading to mark the anniversary of Bishop’s death will acknowledge Crystalle Lacouture’s new installation Correspondence (for Elizabeth Bishop) at the Worcester Art Museum.
Did you know Bishop was also a painter? Listen to local poets and fans read her poems about drawings, paintings, and scenes sketched with a painter’s eye, and enjoy refreshments in the delicate, complicated colors she liked. If you’d like to read — we’ll suggest a poem for you! — please email Beth at ssweeney@holycross.edu by Oct. 10.
Directions: To find Bishop’s grave, enter the main gate of Hope Cemetery, 119 Webster Street, and drive along Curtis Avenue. Take your fourth left onto Beech Avenue (after Elm, Larch, and Bush Avenues). Proceed for one very short bock until you see two trees next to each other on the left side of the road Bishop’s grave lies behind the first tree. There is ample space to park close to the grave.