October 23rd, 2009
Here is the final schedule of Sunday readers for A Marathon Metamorphoses. Be sure to listen to Rob Henke, Lamonte Johnson, and Catherine A. Neville read a selection of myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses by clicking on the video link next to their name. And please stay tuned for future marathon readings at the Pulitzer!
October 23rd, 2009
Here is the final schedule of Saturday readers for A Marathon Metamorphoses. Be sure to listen to K. Curtis Lyle, Carol North, and Avery Springer read a selection of myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses by clicking on the video link next to their names. Read the rest of this entry »
September 3rd, 2009
The buzz around the Pulitzer yesterday morning was that Saturday marathon reader Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes (one of the most read art blogs in the country) wrote a second post about his trip last week to the Pulitzer. If you haven’t caught all the skinny surrounding last weekend’s marathon, I’ve compiled Green’s notes along with a few other internet sources into a list for you. Read the rest of this entry »
August 29th, 2009
For more photos from the weekend, please visit the Pulitzer’s Flickr page.
August 29th, 2009
Or is it your bookmark?
Well, in any case, since 10am this morning, A Marathon Metamorphoses has been going full-throttle. I would like to tell you more, but I’m in a rush to listen to Stefene Russell, who begins in a few, so here are a couple video tidbits to tide over anyone out there glued to the computer, eagerly awaiting a blog update:
Prominent writer and David May Distinguished Professor of Emeritus William H. Gass kicks-off the marathon with the first 15-minute read at 10am.
2:00pm reader Richard Newman, Editor for River Styx, reflects on his fifteen minutes.
August 24th, 2009
Chris King is creative director of Poetry Scores, which translates poetry into other media, and editorial director of The St. Louis American newspaper. He reads at 3:45 p.m. on Sunday.
I suppose I am still not quite over the exceedingly pleasant surprise that The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts is hosting a marathon reading of the Metamorphoses by Ovid. You see, I had thought Ovid was, if not my secret, then the secret of people like me, and I didn’t think there were all that many of us, at least not in St. Louis, and certainly not running august art institutions in St. Louis. Let me explain. Read the rest of this entry »
August 21st, 2009
August 30 marathon reader Elizabeth Ketcher is Executive Director and founder of StudioSTL, a non-profit, in the Grand Center Arts District of St. Louis, which empowers youth through writing programs. You can find StudioSTL young authors’ published works in bookstores or online.
I confess I haven’t read all fifteen books of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Okay, I haven’t read even one. When I tell my friends that I am participating in the Pulitzer’s marathon reading, they casually say, “Oh, yeah. I read that in college.” Huh? All fifteen books? I learned that my friends (and husband) are confused. Not Kafka, The Metamorphosis! This is OVID, Metamorphoses! Duh. Read the rest of this entry »
August 11th, 2009
Judy Mann, a curator at Saint Louis Art Museum, describes Joachim Wtewael’s idealized rendition of Ovid’s Cephalus and Procris, a dramatic couple who can be read about in Book 7 of the Metamorphoses. The painting is in the Pulitzer’s Main Gallery for Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, and is on loan from the St. Louis Art Museum.
August 10th, 2009
This post was written by Lorin Cuoco, a consultant for the St. Louis Poetry Center, who has written and edited six books, including St. Louis: A Literary Guide, which she co-wrote with A Metamorphoses Marathon reader William Gass. She and Gass also founded the International Writers Center at Washington University.
The author of the Arabian Nights, Boccaccio, Dante, Chaucer, Spencer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton—all were students of Ovid, some were thieves. Publius Ovidius Naso was born in Sulmo in 43 B.C. His father took him to Rome at an early age, to study law, the preparation even then for a public career. It was the study of rhetoric, though, that he was drawn to and which would bring him fame and then infamy. In A.D. 8 the emperor Augustus banished him to Tomis on the Black Sea. His reason? The immorality of Ovid’s love poems, Ars Amatoria (the Art of Love). Ovid himself makes reference to the offense, saying it was a poem, (and a mistake) in a poem called Tristia, written in exile. Sad, devastated, abandoned to a bad climate and unrefined inhabitants, never to return to his beloved Rome after many appeals to Augustus, and his successor, Tiberius, Ovid died in A.D. 17 or 18. Read the rest of this entry »
August 10th, 2009
To produce projects which require a wide-range of specializations–for example theater for Staging Old Masters or Alzheimer’s Disease for Let’s Look–the Pulitzer regularly partners with expert organizations. For A Marathon Metamorphoses, a public reading of a fifteen-book poem, the Pulitzer has united with the literary organizations River Styx and the St. Louis Poetry Center.
The St. Louis Poetry Center promotes poetry in St. Louis by various means, such as workshops, classes, and readings. A consultant for the Poetry Center, Lorin Cuoco, has orchestrated marathon readings in the past and met with Kress Fellow Hannah Fullgraf, Community Engagement Coordinator Lisa Harper-Chang, and Director Matthias Waschek for the designing of A Marathon Metamorphoses. She will also be a reader during the event.
In the following video, Cuoco gives her thoughts on A Marathon Metamorphoses. She also mentions that copies of the Metamorphoses will be being sold at the event. Those books will be provided by another team player, St. Louis local bookstore Left Bank Books.
