James Merrill: Life and Art

Langdon Hammer is a poet, editor, and chair of the Yale English Department. The New Yorker calls his new biography of James Merrill “as vivid and artful an account as we are likely to encounter.” Stephen Yenser, Merrill’s co-literary executor, joins Hammer to discuss and read the work of this great twentieth century poet.

POETRY

This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide