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Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets, along with his friend Anthony Hecht, of the World War II generation, Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems; Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Mona Van Duyn; Whiting Awards: Russell Edson, Mary Karr, C.D. Wright; William Carlos Williams Award: Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987; Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richard Howard
This series featured well-known poets such as John Ashbery, Thom Gunn, Donald Hall, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, Charles Simic, Richard Wilbur, and W.D. Snodgrass. [ 5 ] In 2002, Hoy established The Waywiser Press, a publishing platform that continues to produce new works to date. [ 6 ]
AML Award for poetry Philip White for "Island Spring" American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Richard Wilbur; Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Donald Hall, "Museum of Clear Ideas" Bollingen Prize: Laura Riding Jackson and Donald Justice; Frost Medal: Donald Hall; National Book Award for poetry: Philip Levine, What Work Is
AML Award for poetry to Robert A. Christmas for "Self-Portrait as Brigham Young" Frost Medal: Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Richard Wilbur; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah; Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Philip Levine; Whiting Awards: Mark Cox, Michael Ryan
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Brian Turner, Here, Bullet (Alice James Books), war poetry; Richard Wilbur, Collected Poems, 1943–2004 (Harvest Books), one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year" [16] Marvin X, Land of My Daughters: Poems 1995–2005 (Black Bird Press) Jesse Lee Kercheval, Chartreuse (Hollyridge Press)
Hilberry is the author of eleven books of poetry. He and his daughter Jane, also a poet, co-authored a volume titled This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and Daughter, introduced by Richard Wilbur. He was co-editor (with Michael Delp, and Herbert Scott) of the anthology Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast (1988).