Wilbur Will Read His Poetry Today

Richard Wilbur, junior fellow, will give a reading from his own poems at 5 p.m. today in Emerson D. The reading, under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, is open to the public without charge.

Wilbur, the author of "The Beautiful Changes," a book of poems published in 1947, is an Amherst College graduate who received his A.M. from Harvard in 1947. One of his poems. "The Puritan," appeared in the latest issue of the Advocate. He will give a course here next year, English 271, on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.

The Morris Gray Poetry Fund income is applied to the giving of occasional talks or lectures on modern poetry, and is derived from a gift of $10,000 given to the University in 1939 by Morris Gray '77.