David Wojahn

David Wojahn is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004 (Pittsburgh, 2006), a finalest for the Pulitzer and winner of the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library.  His collection World Tree received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and his most recent is For the Scribe (Pittsburgh, 2017).  He has produced two books of essays and is a Guggenheim fellow, as well as winner of NEA Grants, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize and the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship.  Wojahn teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Written on the Due Date of a Child Never Born

Echinacea, bee balm, aster. Trumpet vine I watch your mother bend to prune, water sluicing silver from the hose – another morning you will never see. Summer solstice: dragonflies flare the unpetaled rose. 6 a.m. & already she’s breaking down, … Continue reading