The Lancaster Literary Guild
Intern
May - September, 2013
Author and Organizer of the T.S. Eliot exhibit
Tucked into a leafy street in the small city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, The Literary Guild quietly occupies a stone house with creaky floors and offers visitors a chance to lose themselves within the complex minds of famous authors. The Guild specializes in presenting exhibits of writers, poets, activists, as well as sessions and writing workshops with modern authors. For the 100-year anniversary of his most famous published poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", I was set to single-handedly create an entire exhibit centered around the life and works of T.S. Eliot.
During the balmy summer heat, I spent entire days crammed in my small room and pored through three different biographies. I made a shameful number of dog-ears and underlines in pen. On a weekend, I personally trekked up to Harvard University to sit in their quiet reading room and dig through their collection of Eliot photographs, his somber eyes from childhood to old age staring up at me from the tomes. I developed a strange affection for his first wife, Vivienne Eliot, who was riddled with afflictions and angst-ridden throes of the heart. To this day I hold a sympathy and fondness for the man who some described as morose, impeccably mannered to a fault, and who jotted down his fitful anxieties and became a recognizable voice of modern poetry.
The exhibit opened on the weekend of April 3rd, 2015.
The Lancaster Literary Guild website
T.S. Eliot exhibit info page
May - September, 2013
Author and Organizer of the T.S. Eliot exhibit
Tucked into a leafy street in the small city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, The Literary Guild quietly occupies a stone house with creaky floors and offers visitors a chance to lose themselves within the complex minds of famous authors. The Guild specializes in presenting exhibits of writers, poets, activists, as well as sessions and writing workshops with modern authors. For the 100-year anniversary of his most famous published poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", I was set to single-handedly create an entire exhibit centered around the life and works of T.S. Eliot.
During the balmy summer heat, I spent entire days crammed in my small room and pored through three different biographies. I made a shameful number of dog-ears and underlines in pen. On a weekend, I personally trekked up to Harvard University to sit in their quiet reading room and dig through their collection of Eliot photographs, his somber eyes from childhood to old age staring up at me from the tomes. I developed a strange affection for his first wife, Vivienne Eliot, who was riddled with afflictions and angst-ridden throes of the heart. To this day I hold a sympathy and fondness for the man who some described as morose, impeccably mannered to a fault, and who jotted down his fitful anxieties and became a recognizable voice of modern poetry.
The exhibit opened on the weekend of April 3rd, 2015.
The Lancaster Literary Guild website
T.S. Eliot exhibit info page