Celebrate Poet Dorothy Parker during National Poetry Month at Woodlawn’s “Book Night” April 15

By SÍLE MOLONEY

DOROTHY PARKER, POET
Photo courtesy of the Woodlawn Conservancy

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Woodlawn Conservancy and the Dorothy Parker Society with a virtual “Book Night” over Zoom as the Conservancy remembers legendary poet Dorothy Parker, interred in Myrtle Plot at Woodlawn Cemetery.

Host, Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, president of the Dorothy Parker Society, will lead a conversation with Chicago-based, writer-researcher Stuart Y. Silverstein. The editor of Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker (Scribner) recently discovered 20 “lost” Dorothy Parker poems and will share his exciting discoveries with the group. The chat will include these new poems made public for the very first time.

Woodlawn officials say its cemetery is the final resting place of many pioneering poets, and participants will learn more about them during this talk.

To join the Zoom talk, click here.

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