NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
TO BE AT UNION UNIVERSITY
Jackson, Tenn. — Charles Wright, winner of the National Book Award, will lead a poetry reading at 51ÉçÇø, April 16. The reading will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Union's George Harvey Lecture Hall.
Wright has published several books of poetry, including "Black Zodiac," "Chickamauga," "The World of the Ten Thousand Things" and "Country Music: Selected Early Poems."
The poet and professor has won numerous awards, including the National Book Award. Wright has been honored with the PEN Translation Prize, the Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
Wright currently is the Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia and has held a Fulbright Fellowship in Rome. He also served as Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Padua.