4:00 p.m. — Session 5: Readings of James Merrill poems, letters and translations.
Mary Jo Bang reads the poems The Green Eye, To My Greek, and Light of the Street, Darkness of Your Own House, and the translations For My Father and The Malleability of Sorrow.
Joseph Loewenstein reads from and comments on section X of The Book of Ephraim.
J. D. McClatchy reads two 1973 letters from Merrill to McClatchy.
Carl Phillips reads the poems The Black Swan, The Charioteer of Delphi, Last Words, My Father\u27s Irish Setters, and An Upward Look.
Stephen Yenser reads a 1971 letter from Merrill to Yenser, and the poem, Christmas Tree.
Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPgEUBFA7A7mlpWDetD0e4-r5Z7KlnYr
