[Tim Murphy]

Dick sends greetings to his colleagues. I shall have his comments by this weekend and those I shall faithfully transcribe. I also have good news. Lee Gurga will resume our seminar on Haiku and Senryu this summer. I think Lee's first appearance was a wonderful thing last summer, because it united the metrical and free verse sides of the church. I'm sure you'll all look forward to having him return.

[Kevin Andrew Murphy]

Very good news on both fronts and I look forward to both.

Thanks to both of them, and to you for arranging this.

Kevin

[Rose Kelleher]

Neat! Congrats to all who will be reviewed, and thanks for arranging it, Tim.

(BTW, I don't know where Maz has been hiding lately, but her real name's M. A. Griffiths and she lives in England.)

[alvaro.alarcon]

It is a pleasure to be a member of a forum that although once I was never able to fully appreciate due to the demands of a narrow, non-literary life (the workaday world that America so readily piles up on someone like me), now I see as a venue for such luminaries as Richard Wilbur.

Alvaro Alarcon

[Tim Murphy]

I'm going to lie in the weeds for a bit while others comment on the poems and on Richard's concise observations, which are elegant and penetrating. But I shall comment on all of them and why I thought them worthy of consideration. Chris, I remember word for word the first post card he sent me twenty-seven years ago. He was MUCH tougher on me than he was on you, and I was twenty-seven.

I talked to Dick this afternoon. Of course this is his second tour of duty, and he is astonished that the Sphere has such poets in its membership. I promised him eight fine poems by poets he had never heard of, an offer he couldn't resist! He warmly granted how just was my rueful contrast to the country's MFA programs. For now, just let me congratulate my colleagues for putting on a good show on behalf of all of us for our greatest living poet.

[Carol Taylor]

Wow! What an honor to have a poem included among those submitted to Richard Wilbur for comment! Thanks so much to Tim for putting this together and to Mr. Parnassus for his astute reading and generous assesment.


Carol

[alvaro.alarcon]

There is a copy of Wilbur's New and Collected Poems in the hallway outside my study, and while in the bath, I shall reread some of his poems, and enjoy the ones I haven't read.

Alvaro

[grasshopper]

I've been offline with computer problems but may I just add my tardy thanks to Richard Wilbur to gracing the Lariat board, and to all those who made it possible.
I felt very honoured to have a poem included, and it was a delight to read all the poems and his comments.
Regards, Maz

[R. S. Gwynn]

Great that Mr. Wilbur is participating. I'm teaching a graduate seminar on his work this summer.

[Margaret Moore]

Tim,
Have been meaning for weeks past to express appreciation of this initiative. It was a pleasure to reread these fine poems with the benefit of Richard Wilbur's sensitive and perceptive critiques.
Margaret.