Brown U. Professor Wins National Book Award

Brown U. Professor Wins National Book Award

Brown University English professor C.D. Wright's latest book, One With Others: [a little book of her days], was nominated yesterday for the prestigious National Book Award in poetry. She has described the book, which is an examination of racism in her native Arkansas, as her "footnote to civil rights."

The former Rhode Island poet laureate has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Rising Falling Hovering -- winner of last year's coveted Griffin Poetry Award.

If her new book wins, Wright will receive $10,000 and a bronze statue. It will be the second time in as many years that the work of a Brown professor wins the prize; Humanities professor Keith Waldrop's Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy earned the distinction in 2009.
 

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