David Wojahn is the author of eight collections of poetry, including World Tree (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), winner of the 2012 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982–2004 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), which was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2007 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize. He has received numerous awards and honors, among them the 2008 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, a 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1994 and 1982 National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and the 1987–1988 Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship. Wojahn is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, and teaches at Vermont College of the Fine Arts.  

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