2010 Albaugh Lecture- Richard Wilbur

An Afternoon with Richard Wilbur

Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
Memorial Reading Room

Join U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer-prize winner Richard Wilbur for an informal, student-oriented discussion of poetry and his own poems. Wilbur, perhaps the greatest living American poet, is the author of nine collections of poetry, of translations of Molière and Racine, and of several children’s books. As the Washington Post says of him: “Throughout his career Wilbur has shown, within the compass of his classicism, enviable variety. His poems describe fountains and fire trucks, grasshoppers and toads, European cities and country pleasures. All of them are easy to read, while being suffused with an astonishing verbal music and a compacted thoughtfulness that invite sustained reflection.”

Sponsored by the Honors College and Phi Beta Kappa. Free and Open to the Public.

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2010 Albaugh Lecture: An Evening with Richard Wilbur

Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Barfield Drawing Room

Join U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer-prize winner Richard Wilbur as he recites and discusses his poetry. Wilbur, perhaps the greatest living American poet, is the author of nine collections of poetry, of translations of Molière and Racine, and of several children’s books. As the Washington Post says of him: “Throughout his career Wilbur has shown, within the compass of his classicism, enviable variety. His poems describe fountains and fire trucks, grasshoppers and toads, European cities and country pleasures. All of them are easy to read, while being suffused with an astonishing verbal music and a compacted thoughtfulness that invite sustained reflection.”

Sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa of Baylor University. Free and Open to the Public. For more information, contact Dr. Michael Foley at Michael_Foley@baylor.edu.