A Marathon Metamorphoses is around the corner! I announced the event in early June but finally can begin releasing details!

Whoa–a Marathon of what? No, the Pulitzer is not the finish line for a race through various St. Louis art institutions. I think my registrar friends at the Pulitzer and SLAM might have a heart attack, if that actually was the case. “A Marathon Metamorphoses” is a 2-day reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses sponsored by the Pulitzer, the St. Louis Poetry Center, and River Styx.

The epic read, as I fondly refer to it, will be held in the Pulitzer galleries and is scheduled for Saturday, August 29, and Sunday, August 30 from 10am to roughly 7pm. More than 70 members of the St. Louis community will read the Metamorphoses from cover to cover, in 15-minute time slots. Visitors will get to sit and listen to classical myths about the creation of world, love, seduction, and heroes of the ancient world.

In the coming weeks, you will be hearing more about the details of the event from me, Hannah Fullgraf, and others. There will be video interviews, history of Ovid and Old Masters, and insightful thoughts from some of our readers. Also, the schedule of readers will be posted in the coming week. Stay tuned for that because we have a great line-up of politicians, museum curators, poets, actors, writers, musicians, and more!