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Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the 20th Poet Laureate of the United States.
Charles Wright is often ranked as one of the best American poets of his generation. Born in 1935 in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, Wright attended Davidson College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; he also served four years in the U.S. Army, and it was while stationed in Italy that Wright began to read and…
Born in 1935, Charles Wright is the author of several books of poetry and has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Pulitzer Prize.
Nov 4, 2019 · Dan Chiasson on the work of Charles Wright, whose poems have taken many audacious forms and sound little like one another.
May 8, 2024 · Charles Wright, American poet known for his lyricism and use of lush imagery in his poems about nature, life and death, and God. He served as poet laureate of the United States from 2014 to 2015. Learn more about Wright’s life and poetry as well as his various awards.
Jun 12, 2014 · Charles Wright in 2014, when he was named poet laureate of the United States. His new book, “Oblivion Banjo,” collects five decades of his work. Credit... Andrew Shurtleff for The New York Times
Wright’s reputation as one of the best poets of his generation has increased steadily with each published collection. He won a Nation Book Award in 1983 for Country Music, a selection of his early poems. A decade later he received the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement.
Jun 12, 2014 · The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the nation's next poet laureate will be Charles Wright, a retired professor at the University of Virginia.
He is the author of 24 poetry collections. Wright’s major honors include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
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