David Wojahn is the author of eight collections of poetry, including World Tree (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets as well as the Poets’ Prize, 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 is also the author of a forthcoming collection of essays on contemporary poetry, From the Valley of Saying. Wojahn is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.  

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