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

Sundown Blues, Spring 2008
Time Is a Child-biting Dog, Spring 2008
As the Train Rolls Through, I Remember an Old Poem, Spring 2008
The Book, Spring 2008
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
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
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
All Landscape Is Abstract, and Tends to Repeat Itself, Winter 1997
Ars Poetica II, Winter 1997
Cicada Blue, Winter 1997