Elizabeth McFarland Book Launch
| January 31, 2008 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Book Launch & Reading
Elizabeth McFarland’s
Over the Summer Water
The Main Line Art Center
Old Buck Rd. & Lancaster Ave., Haverford, Pa.
The Mad Poets Society is excited to present a special event celebrating the posthumous release of a first book of poems by Elizabeth McFarland, Over the Summer Water, from Orchises Press.
Elizabeth McFarland (1922-2005) is the poet who brought poetry into the lives of millions. As poetry editor of The Ladies’ Home Journal from 1948 to 1961, she published new work by many noted poets, W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke, among others, and by soon-to-be famous young poets such as Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, and Sylvia Plath. Her poems embody purity of feeling in purity of diction and musical structure, and they have the fingerprint of her individual style. Rachel Hadas writes, “I am intrigued by the wit that knows what to put in and what to leave out, and the curbed but no less strong sensuality.”
The book launch & reading will feature Daniel Hoffman, her husband of 57 years and a former Consultant in Poetry to the Library Congress (the appointment now called U.S. Poet Laureate), who will describe her extraordinary and unique editorial career and discuss the distinctive lyric virtues of her poems. Their daughter, Kate Hoffman Siddiqi, will read a selection from the new book.
A wine and cheese reception will follow.
The event will be held at The Main Line Art Center, located at Old Buck Road and Lancaster Ave. in Haverford (Old Buck Rd. runs next to Wilke Lexus dealership, across from Wendy’s.)
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