James Merrill reads "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop and his own poem dedicated to Bishop, "Developers at Crystal River" on April 11, 1980 at the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, San Francisco
James Merrill discusses the impetus to his relationship with Washington University's Modern Literature Collection, at the first James Merrill Symposium.
James Merrill reading "In Monument Valley" at the Women's Building at Washington University in St. Louis. Merrill was a writer-in-residence at Washington University during this time.
James Merrill reads "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop and his own poem dedicated to Bishop, "Developers at Crystal River," at the Poetry Center in San Francisco.
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…