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“Some winters, taking leave, deal us a last hard blow,” writes Richard Wilbur in the poem “A Storm in April.” Mr. Wilbur’s poem praises a late blizzard which delays the Spring: But the bright, milling snow
Which throngs the air today—
It is a way of leaving
So as to stay. Here at the front-end of a new winter, we offer the poetry of Richard Wilbur—so full of grace and gratitude and good-will—as today’s featured post, recorded in May 1985.
Mr. Wilbur, who first read at the Poetry Center in 1950 and most recently this past May, is now eighty-eight, and yet he shows no signs of slowing. His new collection, Leavings, will be published in 2010.
In an ongoing effort to share with our readers some of the great literary moments which the Poetry Center has presented across the decades, this blog has begun to feature regular postings of archival recordings. For access to other recordings, please click here. For more information about upcoming Poetry Center events, please click here.
Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.
You can also download the MP3. [30 MB]
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