People Meter: Street-corner poetry slam Oct 7, 2009
Elizabeth Bishop, but I have Lorine Niedecker tattooed on my leg. Why perform at 16th and Mission. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
California Avenue trees get the axe Sep 23, 2009
Elizabeth Bishop, Bishop Corporation ... Elizabeth Bishop-Property Manager of numerous California Street properties, Bishop Corporation, She uses Alhouse-Deaton to manager her properties, as does Terry Shuchat ... " Elizabeth Bishop, CEO, The Stanley Bishop Corporation So there you have it. "The CAADA pages are hosted as a community service of Palo Alto Online. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Nicholson Baker’s ‘The Anthologist’ offers antic polemic on reasons for rhyme Sep 6, 2009
There are many fine remarks about individual poems (three lively pages on Elizabeth Bishop s The Fish ) plus a vision of all the poets, including Chowder, occupying different places on an infinitely tall ladder. up into the blinding blue. (Boston Globe)
Alice Methfessel, 66, muse to poet Elizabeth Bishop Jul 10, 2009
Always reticent about her personal life, Elizabeth Bishop chose not to publish in her lifetime a poem she wrote about Alice Methfessel, a much younger woman Bishop met when she arrived in 1970 to teach at Harvard College ... The only child of wealthy parents, Alice was just striking out for her independence when she met Elizabeth and in the years following worked on a master of business administration degree at Boston University and thought of pursuing a business career, Brett C. Millier wrote... (Boston Globe)
Delmore Schwartz is Worth Another L... Jun 25, 2009
Unlike his contemporaries Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman and others, Schwartz is not an important figure in the poetry world today. It could be argued that Berryman, with his postmodern, playful sense of poetry s potentiality and scope, is the most influential of the group. (Suite101.com)
James Franco Takes A Poetic Turn Jun 24, 2009
The star, who's a grad student at both Columbia and NYU, will help launch the summer Travel issue of Lapham's Quarterly tonight at the Hungaria 00004000 n Cultural Center by reading, along with poet Frank Bidart, from works by the likes of Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Bishop, Marco Polo and Homer. The magazine's assistant editor, Jeannie Vanasco, told Page Six, "I met James through the brilliant writer Matthew Specktor . . . I threw out the idea of James recording passages of Lapham's Quarterly for... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Errol Flynn, Captain Blood, and the... Apr 11, 2009
He is saved by the intervention of Elizabeth Bishop, the governor's niece, and then escapes with his friends by commadeering a Spanish ship ... When Captain Blood rescues Elizabeth Bishop from the clutches of renegade pirate Levasseur (Basil Rathbone), he tries to give her jewels and gowns that he has stolen from other ships ... With Peter Blood Governor of Port Royal, and husband of Elizabeth Bishop, the codes are back in force, with peace, prosperity, freedom. (Suite101.com)
More of this story Feb 14, 2009
American poet Elizabeth Bishop once praised the naturalist's "endless, heroic observations," and she was not the only bard inspired by Darwin's writings. On Thursday, Feb. 19, from 7-9:30 p.m., see for yourself during Charles Darwin and Poetry: A Reading and Conversation With Jorie Graham and Others at the Natural History Museum. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
