Hayden Carruth (1921–2008) published work with VQR for nearly forty years, and he remains the only poet to have won VQR's Emily Clark Balch Prize more than once. In his long life in letters, he published literary criticism, essays, a novel, and more than thirty books of poetry. His many awards include a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lannan Literary Award, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Also In VQR

• The Opposing Concepts of Spontaneity and Expediency in Improvisation
• Ovid, Old Buddy, I Would Discourse With You a While
• The Little Fire in the Woods
• The Making Dream
• Rain in August
• Godhulivela
• The Dry Heart of Modesty
• North Winter
• Emergency Haying
• From a Summer Notebook