Tribute to C.D. Wright

The Robert Lowell Memorial Reading Series. Boston poets Maggie Dietz, Jorie Graham, Heather Green (BU Alum), Ha Jin, Karl Kirchwey, Gail Mazur, and Robert Pinsky read from the work of C.D. Wright. Reading followed by dessert reception.

C.D. Wright was the author of a dozen collections, including ShallCross (2016) and One With Others: A Little Book of Her Days, winner of the 2010 National Book Critics and a finalist for the National Book Award Circle Award in Poetry. Wright was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Wright was on the faculty at Brown University.

“I poetry. I write it, study it, read it, edit it, publish it, teach it…sometimes I weary of it. I could not live without it. Not in this world. Not in this lifetime.” – C.D. Wright (1949 – 2016)