Martins Ferry, OH — Famous poet and Martins Ferry native James Wright was celebrated at the 2023 Poetry Festival on Saturday. A walk around downtown Martins Ferry was incorporated to highlight the ...
Wall Street Journal: Review: ‘James Wright’ Was a Poet of the Pure Clear Word
A pure product of the American Midwest, the poet James Wright (1927-80) wanted desperately to escape his hometown of Martins Ferry, Ohio, but his Rust Belt upbringing just wouldn’t leave him alone.
The Washington Post: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Wright ‘couldn’t be casual about anything’
Until recently, any serious reader of American poetry could have named, perhaps even recited, a handful of poems by James Wright. They would most likely be from “The Branch Will Not Break” (1963), ...
Ariel Francisco joins Kevin Young to read “By a Lake in Minnesota,” by James Wright, and his own poem “Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men Were Singing.” Francisco is a poet and translator ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Bollingen Prize Goes to Jay Wright, an ‘Authentically Difficult and Learned’ Poet
Bollingen Prize Goes to Jay Wright, an ‘Authentically Difficult and Learned’ Poet
WRIGHT MINDED: In a September interview with The New York Times Magazine, Ted Kooser, the U.S. poet laureate, was needled for his apparent lack of interest in European poetry. “Think of all the ...
Jonathan Blunk, James Wright's biographer. On Monday night, on what would have been James Wright's 90th birthday, admirers, writers, former students, and scholars gathered at the University of ...