Eating the Pig: A Dinner Party In Poetry, Photography and Painting

An exhibit at the University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library August 23, 2018 - October 2018. The exhibit revolves around the lives of different people beginning in October 1974 on the occasion of a dinner party which occasioned a poem by Donald Hall “Eating the Pig”. Photographs by Stephen Blos of the dinner party that spawned the poem. The exhibition was curated and contributed to by Sarah Innes who was married to Stephen Blos before his death in 1985 and who collaborated with Donald Hall to put his poem and the photographs together. Her drawings and letters tell the story of the collaboration.

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