Hayden Carruth

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.

Published in VQR

• The Opposing Concepts of Spontaneity and Expediency in Improvisation, Spring 1985
• Ovid, Old Buddy, I Would Discourse With You a While, Spring 1985
• Homage to A. MacLeish, Winter 1977
• The Little Fire in the Woods, Spring 1975
• Attractions and Dangers of Nostalgia, Autumn 1974
• From a Summer Notebook, Spring 1970
• Emergency Haying, Spring 1969
• North Winter, Summer 1964
• The Dry Heart of Modesty, Autumn 1963
• Godhulivela, Autumn 1962
• Rain in August, Autumn 1955
• The Making Dream, Autumn 1955
• Tierce, Autumn 1948