C. D. Wright

Contributor History

  • Abandon Yourself to That Which Is Inevitable, Online Exclusive, Fall 2022
  • Three Unpublished Poems, Conjunctions: 79, Fall 2022
  • From Breathtaken, Conjunctions: 55, Fall 2010
  • Some Old Words Were Spoken, Conjunctions: 51, Fall 2008
  • Like Something Christenberry Pictured, Conjunctions: 49, Fall 2007
  • Two Poems, Conjunctions: 47, Fall 2006
  • Rewatching The Passenger, Conjunctions: 42, Spring 2004
  • From One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Conjunctions: 37, Fall 2001
  • From One Big Self, Conjunctions: 35, Fall 2000
  • Retablos, Conjunctions: 32, Spring 1999
  • Frank Stanford, Of the Mulberry Family: An Arkansas Epilogue, Conjunctions: 29, Fall 1997
  • From Secrets, Conjunctions: 23, Fall 1994
  • From Just Whistle, Conjunctions: 17, Fall 1991

Biography

A longtime friend of and contributor to Conjunctions, C. D. Wright was one of her generation’s most iconic and influential poets. Her many books won her a host of major awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Griffin Prize, and a 2004 MacArthur Fellowship. Her collections One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (Twin Palms Pub), with photographs by Deborah Luster, and One with Others (Copper Canyon) are passionate and ethical classics of documentary poetics.