Tom Vitale interviews James Merrill on the program "A Moveable Feast." In this episode, titled "Late Settings," Vitale and Merrill discuss the general themes in Merrill's poems and the emotions behind Merrill's writing process, as well as Merrill's…
James Merrill reads from his piece "The Changing Light at Sandover," a poem based on his and David Jackson's experiences with their Ouija board seances, at the first James Merrill Symposium. He is accompanied here by Peter Hooten voicing the…
James Merrill reads "The Pruned Tree" by Howard Moss (poetry editor of the New Yorker and friend of Merrill's) and "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop at the first James Merrill Symposium.
James Merrill reads his sonnet sequence "The Broken Home" in Brown Hall at Washington University. Inspiration for this sequence came, in part, from his experience with his parents' divorce.
See also "Looking at Mummy" manuscript page and Journal…
James Merrill reading "Pola Diva" in translation from the French at Brown Hall at Washington University in St. Louis. The original poem was written by Alexandrian poet Ayoub Sinano.