Great Writers
C.D. Wright
C.D. Wright lived and breathed poetry throughout her life. "Poetry is a necessity of life," this prolific American poet said. "It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so."
[Photo credit: Blue Flower Arts, https://cdwrightpoet.com]
Wright (1949-2016) was born in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and her writing is deeply rooted in the Ozarks. She published 16 collections of poetry and prose, including ShallCross (2016) and One With Others [a little book of her days] (2011), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She published several book-length poems, including the critically acclaimed Deepstep Come Shining (1998).
Wright’s writing has been described as experimental, astute, generous, socially conscious, and showing a strong sense of place. Though much of her work is connected to her Ozarks home, she also spent time on both coasts, in New York and San Francisco, and she taught for many years at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her husband, poet Forrest Gander, created a website in tribute to Wright – https://cdwrightpoet.com/.
Biography: https://cdwrightpoet.com/
https://poets.org/poet/c-d-wright
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-d-wright
Poetry:
From 'ShallCross'
Imaginary Hollywood
From One Big Self "Count Your Fingers"