the places poems make : elizabeth bishop

the places poems make:

elizabeth bishop

elizabeth bishop
at copacabana beach, in rio de janeiro
july 1962

a professional development workshop for k-12 educators in worcester public schools

workshop objectives

to consider the relationship between speaker and poet

to discuss bishop's concordance in relation to the linguistic concept of deixis

to explore procedural poetry as a compositional practice

to generate lesson plans about diction and/or parts of speech

to explore ekphrasis as a compositional practice

links

homepage of the elizabeth bishop society of nova scotia

overview, guide, and exhibit relating to elizabeth bishop's papers at vassar college

resource page on bishop via poetryfoundation.org

resource page on bishop via poets.org, including the text of "in the waiting room"

resource page on bishop via modern american poetry, at u. of illinois

resource page on bishop's "in the waiting room" via modern american poetry, at u. of illinois

secondary sources

bonnie costello, elizabeth bishop: questions of mastery, cambridge: harvard up, 1993

carole doreski, elizabeth bishop: the restraints of language, oxford: oxford up, 1993

jonathan ellis, art and memory in the work of elizabeth bishop, london: ashgate, 2006

gary fountain and peter brazeau, remembering elizabeth bishop: an oral biography, amherst: u of massachusetts p, 1996

lorrie goldensohn, elizabeth bishop: the biography of a poetry, new york: columbia university p, 1992

marilyn may lombardi , elizabeth bishop: the geography of gender, charlottesville: u of virginia p, 1993

susan mccabe, elizabeth bishop: her poetics of loss, state college: penn state up, 2004

laura jehn menides and angela g. dorenkamp, eds. in worcester, massachusetts: essays on elizabeth bishop, from the 1997 elizabeth bishop conference at wpi, new york: peter lang, 1999

brett c. millier, elizabeth bishop: life and the memory of it, berkeley: u of california p, 1995

robert dale parker, the unbeliever: the poetry of elizabeth bishop, champaign: u of illinois p, 1988

lloyd schwartz and sybil p. estess, elizabeth bishop and her art, ann arbor: university of michigan p, 1983

thomas j. travisano, elizabeth bishop: her artistic development, charlottesville: u of virginia p, 1988

kirstin hotelling zona marianne moore, elizabeth bishop, and may swenson: the feminist poetics of self-restraint, ann arbor: university of michigan p, 2002

videos

langdon hammer, first bishop lecture at yale, spring 2007 langdon hammer, second bishop lecture at yale, spring 2007

carle johnson and laura menides at hope cemetery, worcester, ma
reading bishop's "one art" at her gravesite
carle johnson and laura menides at hope cemetery, worcester, ma
reading bishop's "the bight" and discussing the inscription on her gravesite

designed and developed by jim cocola, assistant professor of literature, film, and media,
department of humanities and arts, worcester polytechnic institute

last modified : jim cocola : 2010.02.28 15.00
[jcocola at wpi dot edu]