David Wojahn is the author of eight collections of poetry, including World Tree (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) and Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982–2004 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 2007 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize. He has received numerous awards and honors, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, and the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize. Wojahn is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, and teaches at Vermont College of the Fine Arts.  

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