David Wojahn is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982–2004, which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and World Tree, a winner of both the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize, and the Poets’ Prize. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship. A previous book of his essays on verse, Strange Good Fortune, appeared in 2001.
