Franz Wright May 10, 2008
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Sticks and stones for Moss May 1, 2007
Also participating in the evening were fellow Pulitzer winner Franz Wright, "Wicked" author Gregory Maguire, and humorist Roy Blount Jr.. Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was at Hasbro's headquarters in Pawtucket, R.I., yesterday, where the Super Bowl MVP tossed around the company's new Nerf Peyton Manning Pro Grip Football. (Boston Globe)
Paladino rises to Gotlieb director Sep 20, 2006
During the Student Enrichment Series, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright will be reading and men from the Boston Ballet will be performing an excerpt from its upcoming show, Don Quixote. Page 1 of 2. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
Between the lines: Poets & Writers: 'Essential resource' Jul 13, 2006
It's brimming with author interviews (Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, poet Franz Wright, novelist Sigrid Nunez); roundups of publishing industry news; guides to upcoming events such as writers retreats; nuts-and-bolts columns offering advice on author book tours, how to find an agent, how to deal with publicists, the benefits of collaborations and the like; and first-person essays on the literary life and the craft of fiction. "The magazine has been an essential resource for literary writers since... (Sacramento Bee -- Lifestyle)
He keeps a haven of poetry alive Jun 3, 2006
The thought of this thing that we all loved so much going down the drain was just too much," he said in an interview at the store.Poetry is a tiny part of American publishing and bookselling. Poets House, a library and educational center in New York, collects virtually all poetry books. This year it collected about 2,100 new titles for its annual showcase event, its largest haul yet. Still, that's a fraction of the 195,000 new books published in 2004.Large commercial houses still publish poets,... (Boston Globe)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet plans Anchorage reading Apr 4, 2006
"I myself am about 50 different people on any given day," Franz Wright says, laughing ... Franz Wright, 52, began publishing poems at the age of 19, which he now says "was probably far too soon for me to do it, but that's what happened." His early work, published in the 1980s and early '90s, garnered critical praise along with fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts ... With an entire body of work in print, readers will have a chance to... (Anchorage Daily News)
‹ Franz Wright poem Apr 4, 2006
From "God's Silence" by Franz Wright, copyright 2006 by Franz Wright, published in arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House Inc.. Life links. (Anchorage Daily News)
