In the Waiting Room

John D. Scott

John D. Scott has won multiple awards and glowing reviews as an independent filmmaker. He has directed many well travelled short films and one critically acclaimed feature-length documentary on poet John Stiles called Scouts Are Cancelled (2007), and is currently developing a long-form documentary on poet Elizabeth Bishop.  Responses to his most recent poem adaptation are very welcome. Please visit his Facebook page for more information (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elizabeth-Bishop-and-the-Art-of-Losing/408275002545921).  Currently, Scott is an Associate Professor in the Media Arts Sciences and Studies Department at Ithaca College.

“First Death in Nova Scotia” from THE COMPLETE POEMS 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 

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