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| Elizabeth Bishop: "Thus should have been our travels..." Tuesday, April 24, 2001 4 p.m. Special Collections Fifth Floor, Olin Library Reception after. All are welcome. Washington
University's Elizabeth Bishop Papers
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 Ellen Bryant Voigt, Todd Borlik, Rachel Sullivan, Rachel Toulouse will read selections from Bishop's work as well as their own. The Modern Literature Reading Series celebrates the careers and influence of authors in the Modern Literature Collection by inviting writers to read from their work. Ellen Bryant Voigt has published five volumes of poetry- Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees, and Kyrie, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and excerpted for "Voices of 1918," a piece commissioned by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. She has co-edited a collection of essays, Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World, and a volume of her own craft essays, The Flexible Lyric, was released in 1999. A recipient of NEA, Guggenheim and Lila Wallace fellowships, Voigt teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at Warren Wilson College and currently serves as Vermont State Poet. Todd Borlik is a Senior majoring in English. His poems have appeared in the Eliot Review. Rachel Sullivan is a Junior majoring in English at Washington University. Her poems have appeared in the Eliot Review. Rachel Toulouse is an MFA candidate at Washington University. |
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