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Richard Wilbur | 2010
Richard Wilbur is among the singular poets of our time, the only living poet to have twice won the Pulitzer Prize, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States. As a young veteran of World War II, Wilbur became friends with Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens and began writing the refined and rigorously optimistic poetry that characterize his sixty-year oeuvre. In the 1960s, Wilbur and his wife Charlee began spending winters in Key West, where he became friends with a circle of poets including James Merrill, John Ciardi, and John Malcolm Brinnin. In January 2010 we welcomed Wilbur back to Key West with<em> Clearing the Sill of the World</em>, our 28th annual Seminar, held in his honor.
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Richard Wilbur | 2010
Richard Wilbur is among the singular poets of our time, the only living poet to have twice won the Pulitzer Prize, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States. As a young veteran of World War II, Wilbur became friends with Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens and began writing the refined and rigorously optimistic poetry that characterize his sixty-year oeuvre. In the 1960s, Wilbur and his wife Charlee began spending winters in Key West, where he became friends with a circle of poets including James Merrill, John Ciardi, and John Malcolm Brinnin. In January 2010 we welcomed Wilbur back to Key West with<em> Clearing the Sill of the World</em>, our 28th annual Seminar, held in his honor.
Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Richard Wilbur'
One more look @ the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar
Photo-caption highlights from "Clearing the Sill of the World," the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar. An extraordinary literary event, which brought together seven U.S. Poets Laureate, as many winners of the Pulitzer Prize, up-and-coming poetic talents, and a truly remarkable audience of readers, writers, teachers, and poetry lovers of all stripe.
<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.
From the Nets
Men with Jewfish, Key West, ca. 1935. From the Dale McDonald Collection, via the Monroe County Public Library on Flickr Today's haul from the deep: • Jewfish, Amberjack, or Black Drum? Carol Frost takes a look at Elizabeth Bishop's Key...
Fresh Catch: from the Archives
We've been drifting over the archives this week and have hauled in a coolerful of keepers. The trophies are below, but make sure to visit <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/keywestliteraryseminar/" target="_blank">our Flickr page</a> for more of these unique images from the early years of the Key West Literary Seminar.
A Reading by Richard Wilbur: 2003
Richard Wilbur is a former United States Poet Laureate and the only writer since Robert Frost to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice. In this recording from the 2003 Key West Literary Seminar, Wilbur reads and comments upon numerous poems, translations, lyrics, and light verse spanning his career.
Entries from Key West Literary Seminar | Audio Archives tagged with 'Richard Wilbur'
Richard Wilbur: 2003
Richard Wilbur is a former United States Poet Laureate and the only writer since Robert Frost to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice. In this recording from the 2003 Key West Literary Seminar, Wilbur reads and comments upon numerous poems, translations, lyrics, and light verse spanning the length and breadth of his career. From the then-unpublished <em>Collected Poems, 1943-2004</em>, Wilbur gives voice to "The Reader" and "Man Running;" from <em>Mayflies</em>, he reads "A Barred Owl," which asks the question, adds Wilbur, "whether poetry is supposed to make nice with the world, or whether it's to arm us with the words with which we can confront reality." Also from <em>Mayflies </em>are "For Charlee"; his translation of the Bulgarian poet Valeri Petrov's "A Cry from Childhood," and the three-part poem "This Pleasing Anxious Being." From 1989's <em>New and Collected Poems</em>, Wilbur reads "The Ride," "Lying," "On Having Mis-identified a Wild Flower," the Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes's "Song," and "Hamlen Brook"; from 1976's <em>The Mind-Reader</em>, he presents "The Writer" and "A Wedding Toast." Continuing back into time, Wilbur reads "Museum Piece," from <em>Ceremony</em>; "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," from <em>Things of This World</em>; and, from <em>Advice to a Prophet</em>, "Two Voices in a Meadow" and "Pangloss's Song: A Comic-Opera Lyric," written for the 1956 musical version of <em>Candide</em> that Wilbur collaborated on with Lillian Hellman and Leonard Bernstein. The reading concludes with several humorous poems, including "A Late Aubade," the two-part "Flippancies" (including "The Star System" and "What's Good for the Soul Is Good for Sales"), "To His Skeleton," "The Prisoner of Zenda," and several verses from his book for children, <em>The Disappearing Alphabet.</em>
Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Richard Wilbur'
From the Nets
Purse seine boats fishing for menhaden. Photo by Robert K. Brigham, courtesy NOAA's Fisheries Collection. On our way to the sill of the world, we've been trolling. Here's what we're catching: • KWLS 28 will feature six past U.S. Poets...
Entries from Key West Literary Seminar | Audio Archives tagged with 'Richard Wilbur'
Richard Wilbur: 1993 <br>A Reading in Tribute to Elizabeth Bishop
The 1993 Key West Literary Seminar was devoted entirely to Elizabeth Bishop. A series of readings-in-tribute offered her fellow poets the opportunity to discuss Bishop and her influence.<br> In this recording from the event, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur reads Bishop's "Little Exercise." Wilbur also reads his translation of "Song," by Vinícius de Moraes, the Brazilian poet and Bossa Nova pioneer who co-wrote many of João Gilberto's hits.
Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Richard Wilbur'
Richard Wilbur: 1993 <br>A Reading in Tribute to Elizabeth Bishop
The 1993 Key West Literary Seminar, devoted to the work of Elizabeth Bishop, featured a series of readings-in-tribute. In this recording, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur reads Bishop's "Little Exercise." Originally published in her debut 1946 collection <em>North and South</em>, the poem ostensibly describes a thunderstorm "roaming the sky" over the mangrove islands, boulevard, herons, and sleeping indigents characteristic of Key West, a place each poet called home. Wilbur also reads his translation of "Song," by Vinícius de Moraes, the Brazilian poet and Bossa Nova pioneer who was the songwriting partner of Antônio Carlos Jobim for many of João Gilberto's hits.
KWLS 28 to Feature 7 U.S. Poets Laureate
<em>Clearing the sill of the world</em>, the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar, will feature a cast of poets including seven past and present United States Poets Laureate. The office, appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress since 1937, exists to "raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry," and serve as "the nation's official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans."
Elizabeth Bishop Recordings Coming Soon
We will soon begin to release audio recordings from our 1993 Seminar devoted to poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). The event was organized by John Malcolm Brinnin, a friend of Bishop's since the 1940s, and brought together many of Bishop's...
2010: Clearing the Sill of the World
We're pleased to announce the theme for our 2010 Seminar. Clearing the Sill of the World, from January 7 - 10, will be a celebration of 60 years of American poetry in honor of our longtime friend Richard Wilbur....
Men of Letters
Image of Richard Wilbur, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Philip Burton, at the January 4 1993 dedication of Elizabeth Bishop's former Key West home as a Literary Landmark.
A Day at the Beach, 1984
How many words is a picture worth if its subjects have penned more than many thousands of bestselling words apiece, already read by tens of thousands of readers? If in their beach bags are five Pulitzer Prizes, a few National Book Awards, two Bollingen Prizes, and office stationery from the U.S. Poet Laureate?
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