10:30 a.m. — Session 2: Remembering Jimmy Stephen Yenser, distinguished professor of English, UCLA — Reading an essay about his friendship with Merrill Randy Bean, board member, James Merrill House Committee — Presenting on the history and initiatives of the James Merrill House Judith Moffett, adjunct professor emerita of English, University of Pennsylvania — Mixed Messages, an excerpt from Unlikely Friends: A Memoir Rachel Hadas, professor of English, Rutgers University — (via prerecorded video) reading an excerpt from The Book of Ephraim, reading her poem, Threshold and Mirror: the Biography, and recollecting her friendship with Merril
