Elizabeth Bishop in Key West: Birthday Count Down

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Elizabeth Bishop first came to Key West in the 1930s. She lived in this nineteenth-century 
clapboard eyebrow house at 624 White Street off and on from 1938 to 1946. 
In a letter to Marianne Moore she wrote: “It is very nice here; I wish so much that 
you and your mother could come here sometime, I am so sure you would like it. 
The sea is so beautiful– all spotted and striped, from dark black-blue to what 
my aunt calls ‘lettuce’ green.”

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  1. word worker • book binger • story smithFebruary 7, 2011 at 9:14 AM

    I will be spending two weeks on Key West in March-April and will make a pilgrimage to her house!

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  2. Susan RichFebruary 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    Oh, I am so very envious. Please wish her a belated happy birthday for me!

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  3. AngieFebruary 8, 2011 at 5:19 PM

    As promised, I took notes for you at the AWP panel! (See my blog post on Bishop's Birthday Centennial.)

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  4. Susan RichFebruary 8, 2011 at 9:34 PM

    Thanks, Angie -- I'm headed over right now. It was lovely to see you again.

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  5. word worker • book binger • story smithApril 9, 2011 at 10:13 PM

    I made my pilgrimage to 624 White Street! You can read about it here: http://wendycall.blogspot.com/2011/04/art-of-losing.html

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  6. AnonymousJuly 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM

    i lived in her home from 1989-2000. Spentmost of my adolescent years enjoying this historic conch house.
    -KF

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