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During the October 8 and 10, 1979 séances, Merrill finds out about and communicates with the recently deceased Elizabeth Bishop, an esteemed poet who influenced his own work and a close friend.

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 "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop and his own poem dedicated to Bishop, "Developers at Crystal River," at the Poetry Center in San Francisco.

A three-page draft of an unfinished, untitled poem from winter 1992 addressing Elizabeth Bishop. It is an "uncharacteristically awkward" but powerful poem about "raw life" prevailing over "graceful art."

This entry includes two typescript draft pages (among the 40 worksheets Merrill saved) with holograph corrections and drawings showing his "engagement in verbal self-analysis" and reflecting "the intimate, brooding voice in Merrill's notebooks." The…

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

1979 National Book Award in Poetry citation for James Merrill’s Mirabell: Books of Numberby Elizabeth Bishop, Michael S. Harper, and Anthony Hecht.