{"id":737,"date":"2016-02-14T23:12:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/?page_id=737"},"modified":"2016-02-17T22:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T22:50:54","slug":"charles-wright","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/charles-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee on August 25, 1935. He is the author of 24 poetry collections, including\u00a0<\/span><em class=\"\">Caribou<\/em><span class=\"\">\u00a0(2014), which Publishers Weekly calls &#8220;a dexterous balance of lightness in dark&#8230; rife with nihilism, humor, and beauty.&#8221; Wright\u2019s many honors include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize in Poetry from the Library of Congress. Wright served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<h5><b>To inquire about purchasing a reading series broadside, please contact <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/marbl.library.emory.edu\/about\/contact.php\" target=\"_blank\"><b>the Rose Library<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><b>Click <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/broadsides\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>here<\/b><\/a><b> to view the full gallery of reading series broadsides.<\/b><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee on August 25, 1935. He is the author of 24 poetry collections, including\u00a0Caribou\u00a0(2014), which Publishers Weekly calls &#8220;a dexterous balance of lightness in dark&#8230; rife with nihilism, humor, and beauty.&#8221; Wright\u2019s many honors include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1053,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-737","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}