Entries from Key West Literary Seminar | Audio Archives tagged with 'Elizabeth Bishop'

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 &quot;Little Exercise.&quot; Wilbur also reads his translation of &quot;Song,&quot; by Vin&iacute;cius de Moraes, the Brazilian poet and Bossa Nova pioneer who co-wrote many of Jo&atilde;o Gilberto's hits.

John Ashbery on Elizabeth Bishop: 2003

In response to a panel discussion titled Poets and Their Work: Poetry as Its Own Biography (personal I vs. poetic eye), John Ashbery delivers a "mini-lecture" on so-called confessional poetry and the work of Elizabeth Bishop. At the conclusion...