DAVID WOJAHN
Poet and essayist
David Wojahn was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his most recent collection,
Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004, published in 2006,
and the recipient of the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare
Library. He won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for his first collection, Icehouse Lights, as well as numerous other literary awards. Wojahn’s
other titles include Mystery Train, Late Empire, The Falling Hour, and
Spirit Cabinet. A Guggenheim fellow and recipient of a National Endowment
for the Arts fellowship, Wojahn is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth
University. He also teaches in he MFA Program at Vermont College.
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