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February 2019
James Merrill at Home: A Talk by Architectural Historian Rachel Carley
Rachel Carley's presentation will trace the unusual history of the historic 1901 building and explore the way in which Merrill infused his verse with references to his apartment's idiosyncratic décor, and the foibles of small-town life in the village he loved.
Find out more »January 2019
Joanna Scott and James Longenbach Meet & Greet
Join us at Noah's Restaurant in Stonington, CT, as we welcome our January-May fellows, Joanna Scott and James Longenbach.
Find out more »Sigrid Nunez Reads from Her Work
December-January fellow Sigrid Nunez reads from her work at La Grua Center.
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Sigrid Nunez Meet & Greet
Join us at Water Street Cafe in Stonington, CT, as we welcome our December-January fellow, Sigrid Nunez.
Find out more »Jordan Jacks Reads from His Work
November-December fellow Jordan Jacks reads from his work at the Stonington Free Library.
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Jordan Jacks Meet & Greet
Join us at Noah's Restaurant in Stonington, CT, as we welcome our November-December fellow, Jordan Jacks.
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September 2018
Annual Merrill Lecture: Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including The End of Beauty, Sea Change, and The Dream of the Unified Field (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry). One of the most celebrated writers of the American post-war generation, in the words of The New York Times " is to post-1980 poetry what Bob Dylan is to post-1960 rock: she changed her art form, moved it forward, made it able to absorb and express more than it could before. It permanently bears her mark." Her honors include a…
Find out more »Christa Romanosky Meet & Greet
Christa Romanosky is a native of northern Appalachia and a 2017-18 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellow in fiction.
Find out more »August 2018
Karin Roffman & Willard Spiegelman on John Ashbery
Karin Roffman recently published the first biography of American poet John Ashbery, The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life. She is a senior lecturer in Humanities and English at Yale University. Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English, Emeritus, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and now a Stonington resident.
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