Learning from a mentor …

… ‘Studying With Miss Bishop’ Review: Learning His Lines. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Elizabeth Bishop’s approach to teaching makes the reader long to be transported back to the mid-1970s, to sit in her class. After all, there was no shortage of places. She began by asking the dozen or so students who were denied the opportunity to study with Lowell to propose “three or four poets they would like to read and talk about. Does anyone have a suggestion?”