Classical music picks this weekend Jul 24, 2009
On Sunday, poet Richard Wilbur will read, followed by a performance of new Wilbur settings. $20, Peterborough Town House, New Hampshire, 800-868-9613 or. (Boston Globe)
The Week Ahead: Music Jul 23, 2009
On Sunday, the eminent American poet Richard Wilbur will read from his own poetry, followed by a performance of new Wilbur settings composed by James Bolle, Jonathan Elliott, Stephen Jaffe, Mark Kuss, Eric Moe, and Caroline Mallonee. $20, Peterborough Town House, New Hampshire, 800-868-9613 or. (Boston Globe)
Why poetry will never leave us May 9, 2009
One of the poets is Richard Wilbur, the American poet who helped, fifty years ago, to do for me what Fanthorpe did for Duffy - provide an example ... I was knocked out, and I couldn't imagine anyone hearing that and not wanting to know more about Richard Wilbur. (BBC News -- UK)
Poetry Forum utters its final verse Feb 13, 2009
"Some of these writers will be in poetry anthologies for a hundred years. Among the poets were Russia's Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney, U.S. poets laureate Billy Collins, Robert Pinsky, Richard Wilbur and Stanley Kunitz and other key figures such as Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and the late John Updike, who brought his parents to his reading in 1969. "It's amazing to expose that many people to contemporary poets," he added. "Not everyone agreed with him, of course, but... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
