investigative journalism, history and poetry to explore homegrown civil rights incidents and the critical role her mentor, a brilliant and difficult woman, played in a little-known 1969 March Against Fear in her native Arkansas. Shortly after Wright's death in January 2016, Copper Canyon Press published The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All, a book of prosimetric essays, and ShallCross, a book of both short- and long-form poems. Awards 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship 1989 Whiting Award 1994-99 Poet Laureate of the state of Rhode Island 1999 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, grant 2004 MacArthur Fellowship 2005 Robert Creeley Award 2009 Rising, Falling, Hovering winner Griffin Poetry Prize 2010 One With Others, finalist, National Book Award (Poetry) 2010 One With Others, winner, National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 2011 One With Others, winner, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Works This list of works has been taken mostly from C. D. Wright's entry at the Academy of American Poets web page titled "C. D. Wright". 1977: Room Rented By A Single Woman (Lost Roads) 1979: Terrorism (Lost Roads) 1981: Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues (State University of New York Press) 1986: Further Adventures with You (Carnegie Mellon University Press) 1991: String Light (University of Georgia Press) 1993: Just Whistle: A Valentine (Kelsey Street Press) - with photographs by Deborah Luster 1996: Tremble (Ecco) 1998: Deepstep Come Shining (Copper Canyon Press) 2002: Steal Away: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press) [shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize] 2003: One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (Twin Palms) – with photographs by Deborah Luster 2005: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil (Copper Canyon Press) 2007: One Big Self: An Investigation (Copper Canyon Press) 2008: Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon Press) [winner of the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize] 2009: 40 Watts (Octopus Books) 2010: One With Others [[a little book of her days]] (Copper Canyon Press) 2011: Jean Valentine Abridged: Writing a Word; Changing It (Albion Press) 2012: The Other Hand (Horse Less Press) 2016: The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All (Copper Canyon Press) – essays 2016: ShallCross (Copper Canyon Press) References External links Author Website Griffin Poetry Prize biography Profile at The Whiting