C.D. Wright and David Wagoner Read Poetry at Library of Congress

Posted on June 21, 2011

Poets C.D. Wright and David Wagoner read from their work in an evening presentation at the Library of Congress.

C.D. Wright was born in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has published over a dozen books, including Rising, Falling, Hovering and Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems.

David Wagoner has won numerous prestigious literary awards including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and has twice been nominated for the National Book Award. Wagoner was selected to serve as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1978, replacing Robert Lowell, and was the editor of Poetry Northwest until its last issue in 2002.

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