Elizabeth Bishop House Events April 25-26

“Street Scene with Poinciana in Bloom, Key West, Florida.” Postcard from Elizabeth Bishop to Florence Bishop, September 7, 1957. From the Elizabeth Bishop Papers, Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College.

Key West, Florida – The Key West Literary Seminar is pleased to announce its first events at the historic Elizabeth Bishop House at 624 White Street.

Currently on view is the exhibition “Elizabeth Bishop’s Postcards” in the historic living and dining rooms of the house where celebrated American poet Elizabeth Bishop lived and wrote during the 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition contains 71 postcards that Bishop sent to friends over the course of her well-traveled life, from places including Key West, Rio de Janeiro, and London.

The public is invited to the opening reception on Friday, April 25 from 4 to 6 pm. Following the reception, exhibition curators Jonathan Ellis (University of Sheffield) and Susan Rosenbaum (University of Georgia), as well as Ronald Patkus, head of the Archives & Special Collections Library at Vassar College, will discuss Bishop’s postcards, her “fifth art,” in the rear garden of the Bishop House from 6 to 7:15 pm.

Other events of the weekend include a poetry reading by Key West’s Poet Laureate Emily Schulten at 9:30 am on Saturday, April 26, and a conversation with Dr. Heather White (University of Alabama) on “The Letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore” at 10 am. The postcards exhibition will be open on Saturday from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm. All events are free and open to the public.

To complete the weekend, the regularly scheduled Old Town Literary Walking Tour will leave the Key West Library at 10 am on Sunday, April 27. Advanced tickets are required at kwls.org/tour.

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