David Wojahn’s eighth collection of poetry, World Tree, published by the University of Pittsburg Press in 2011, was awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His previous collection, Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982–2004, also published by the University of Pittsburg Press in 2006, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2007 O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2013, Wojahn was the recipient of both the Poets’ Prize and the Nicholas Roerich Museum Poets’ Prize. He has received numerous other awards and honors, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, and the Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry. Wojahn teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and at Vermont College of Fine Arts.  

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