Charles Wright

Charles Wright’s many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent books are Littlefoot (FSG, 2007) and Scar Tissue (FSG, 2006), and he will be the guest editor of the 2008 edition of The Best American Poetry. He is the Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Published in VQR

• The Book, Spring 2008
• Sundown Blues, Spring 2008
• Time Is a Child-biting Dog, Spring 2008
• As the Train Rolls Through, I Remember an Old Poem, Spring 2008
• On the Night of the First Snow, Thinking about Tennessee, Summer 2007
• Next, Summer 2007
• “I Shall Be Released”, Summer 2007
• The Gospel According to Yours Truly, Summer 2007
• Kingsport Harmony, Summer 2007
• Cowboy Up, Summer 2007
• No Angel, Summer 2007
• Bitter Herbs to Eat, and Dipped in Honey, Summer 2007
• Little Prayer, Summer 2007
• Stiletto, Summer 2007
• With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Summer 2007
• Hasta la Vista Buckaroo, Summer 2007
• from Littlefoot, Winter 2006
• Old Papa Cosmos, Spring 2005
• A Field Guide to the Birds of the Upper Yaak, Spring 2004
• Wrong Notes, Spring 2004
• The Minor Art of Self-Defense, Spring 2004
• Cicada Blue, Winter 1997
• All Landscape Is Abstract, and Tends to Repeat Itself, Winter 1997
• Ars Poetica II, Winter 1997