“Robert Lowell: Setting the River On Fire”

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.

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. Jonathan Galassi, President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, will moderate.

The event, which will include a book signing of Jamison's and Peterson's works, will be held on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at 7 p.m. in Greenberg Lounge, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South. It 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.

Please RSVP by March 1 as space is limited.