Dead Poets Appreciation Society: James Merrill

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 wit and verve, of exquisite formal technique and 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', all are welcome to participate, 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. 

A.E. Stallings, Oxford Professor of Poetry, will emcee the event.