New York University will host “Robert Lowell: Setting the River On Fire,” a lecture by Lowell biographer Kay Redfield Jamison, followed by a roundtable discussion celebrating the works of the acclaimed poet, on Wed., March 1, 7 p.m. at NYU School of Law’s Greenberg Lounge (40 Washington Square South [between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets]).
The event, which takes place on the 100th anniversary of Lowell’s birth, will feature: Kay Redfield Jamison, author of a new biography, Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire; Katie Peterson, editor of Lowell's New Selected Poems; Frank Bidart, National Book Critics Circle-winning poet and longtime associate of Lowell; poet and The New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon; and poet Ishion Hutchinson.
“Robert Lowell: Setting the River On Fire,” free and open to the public, will consider his impact on poetry and why he has remained a major presence in our literature after his death in 1977.
An RSVP is required—please register here. For more information, email [email protected] or call 212.998.4291. Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, M (W. 4th St.).
The event, which will include a book signing of Jamison’s and Peterson’s new works, is sponsored by the Biography Seminar at NYU; the Center for the Study of Transformative Lives; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Lowell's publisher; Alfred A. Knopf, publishers of Kay Redfield Jamison; and the Poetry Society of America.