6:30pm

William P. Kelly Skylight Room (9100), The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Ave., at 34th St.)

Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department at Yale, will speak on James Merrill: Life and Art (Knopf, April 2015), one of the most eagerly-awaited literary biographies in years, which he worked on as a fellow of the Leon Levy Center for Biography. Ilan Ehrlich, who completed his PhD as a dissertation fellow, will speak on his biography Eduardo Chibás: The Incorrigible Man of Cuban Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2015).