MORRI CREECH

ERICA DAWSON

JEFFREY HARRISON

JOSEPH HARRISON

J.D. MCCLATCHY

ERIC MCHENRY

MARY JO SALTER

W.D. SNODGRASS

MARK STRAND

DEBORAH WARREN

CLIVE WATKINS

RICHARD WILBUR

GREG WILLIAMSON

Richard Wilbur is the author of The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems (1947); Ceremony and Other Poems (1950); Things of This World (1956), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems (1961); Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations (1969); The Mind-Reader (1976); New and Collected Poems (1988), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize; Mayflies: New Poems and Translations (2000); and Collected Poems, 1943–2004 (2004). Wilbur has also published numerous translations of French plays—specifically those of the seventeenth-century French dramatists Molière and Jean Racine—as well as poetry by Valéry, Villon, Baudelaire, Akhmatova, Brodsky, and others. Wilbur is also the author of several books for children and a few collections of prose pieces, and he has edited such books as Poems of Shakespeare (1966) and The Complete Poems of Poe (1959). Among his many honors are the Wallace Stevens Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Frost Medal, the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Bollingen Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Award, a Ford Foundation Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, two PEN translation awards, the Prix de Rome Fellowship, and the Shelley Memorial Award. He was elected a chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and is a former Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the position that later became Poet Laureate of the United States. A chancellor emeritus of The Academy of American Poets, Wilbur currently lives in Cummington, Massachusetts.