This short poem grapples with so many themes at once, then finishes by reclaiming the body, desire and memory with a simple statement. By Ama Codjoe and Victoria Chang Elizabeth Bishop was a master at ...

On Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz and Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia ...

On the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop & the “important but elusive aspects of contemporary literary culture” that her canonization has revealed. “Oh, please,” Elizabeth Bishop once told me, “Let’s not ...

Today’s installment of the Best of The New Criterion looks to Elizabeth Bishop, with past and present New Criterion reviews of The Complete Poems: 1927-1979, and the posthumously published Edgar Allen ...

A new exhibit at Vassar College highlights the personal papers of the renowned 20th Century poet Elizabeth Bishop – with a fun twist. Lining the halls of Vassar’s stately Thompson Library are tables ...

The writings of American poet Elizabeth Bishop will be read and discussed by Amesbury poet Ellie O’Leary in a program, “Poems ...

Readers admire Robert Lowell, entertain a fondness for Marianne Moore, respect Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot, become fanatics, a few of them, over Ezra Pound, even compete to join the cult of Sylvia ...

Elizabeth A. Bishop, 90, of Hellertown, died Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at St. Lukes Hospital, Fountain Hill. She is the wife of Orville L. Bishop. Born in Fountain Hill on December 2, 1923 to the ...

Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Bishop, 73, of Aptos, CA, passed away on August 27, 2025, from Alzheimer’s complications. She is survived by her siblings Margaret Bishop, Christine Otto, and Philip Bishop; her ...