Charles Wright Wins 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize

Charles Wright, the Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia and a frequent contributor to VQR, has been awarded the 2007 International Griffin Poetry Prize for his book Scar Tissue (FSG, 2006). The Griffin Poetry Prize is the world’s richest poetry prize awarded for a single volume of poetry. The summer issue of VQR, due July 1, features a dozen new poems by Wright.