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<em>The World is Fundamentally a Great Wonder</em> <br>a conversation with Richard Wilbur
In an interview with Arlo Haskell, Richard Wilbur discusses his relationships with Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens, his years living in Key West, his real feelings about 'formal poetry,' and his place in the republic of letters.
Robert Pinsky to give Keynote at KWLS 28
Three-time United States Poet Laureate <a href="http://www.kwls.org/lit/2010/bio.cfm?auth_id=193">Robert Pinsky</a> has been named the keynote speaker for the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar. Pinsky will deliver the John Hersey Memorial Address on Thursday, January 7, 2010, to kick off <em>Clearing the Sill of the World</em>, a celebration of 60 years of American poetry that will feature a total of eight Poets Laureate, including current Laureate Kay Ryan, Rita Dove, Billy Collins, and our guest of honor Richard Wilbur<em>.</em><br> <br> As Poet Laureate from 1997-2000, Pinsky founded the <a href="http://www.favoritepoem.org/" target="_blank">Favorite Poem Project</a>, an enormously popular initiative dedicated to celebrating, documenting, and encouraging poetry's role in Americans' lives. This unique project resulted in a series of video documentaries showcasing individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love, as well as an anthology, <em>Americans' Favorite Poems</em>, that is now in its 18th printing. In addition to this project, Pinsky has championed poetry's presence in American life with columns in <em>The Washington Post</em> and <em>Slate</em>, television appearances on <em>The Simpsons</em> and <em>The Colbert Report</em>, and videos on internet outlets including YouTube and BigThink. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently <em>Gulf Music</em>; collections of essays including the National Book Critics' Circle Award-nominated <em>Poetry and the World</em>; and translations including the work of Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and a landmark version of Dante's <em>Inferno</em> which received the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> Book Award in poetry and the Howard Morton Landon Prize for translation.
From the John Hersey Printing Office
This small, ever-timely broadside was designed and printed by John Hersey in 1969, and reprinted in 1993 by the Fellows of Pierson College at the John Hersey Printing Office.
Brooks and Unsworth to give Keynotes<br><br>Gala Evening with Gore Vidal Planned
Pulitzer Prize-winning Australian novelist Geraldine Brooks will deliver the John Hersey Memorial Address on Thursday, January 8, 2009, during the first session of our twenty-seventh annual Key West Literary Seminar: Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth. Booker Prize-winner...
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American author John Hersey (1914-1993) and noted theater critic Mel Gussow (1933-2005) at a Key West Literary Seminar party hosted by David Wolkowsky, circa 1986-1990. © Jeffrey Cardenas. American poet, biographer, and critic John Malcolm Brinnin with Jean Trebbi,...
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Mark Doty- John Hersey Memorial Address
The first session of the 2008 Seminar kicked off in fine form with a John Hersey Memorial Address from the marvelous poet Mark Doty.
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