James Merrill Event; Dead Poets Appreciation Society; May 7th, Lady Margaret Hall, Old Library, 6:30 pm-

Meeting of We Are The Dead Poets Appreciation Society. This year marks 30 years since James Merrill’s untimely death in 1995. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet of exquisite formal technique and accomplishment, and an ambitious poet of sweeping occult epic, a poet of the gay experience with a gift for literary friendships, and, as a sometime inhabitant of Greece, a philhellene with an interest in modern Greek language and poetry (and one of Cavafy’s finest translators.) In this meeting of the We are the Dead Poets Appreciation Society, participants are welcome to share a Merrill poem with their thoughts, recite or read a Merrill poem, share a Merrill anecdote, read an original poem in response to Merrill, or just listen and enjoy.