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CHARLES WRIGHT & ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT

A Poetic Principles Reading
captured October 15, 2013

At a Poetic Principles event for the 2013 Virginia Literary Festival, Ellen Bryant Voigt and Charles Wright read at the Library of Virginia on October 13, 2013. Charles Wright received the Library of Virginia’s 2013 Lifetime Acheivement Award. Ellen Bryant Voigt was a National Book Award finalist for Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976–2006.

The reading is introduced by Sandy Treadway, the Librarian of Virginia, and Mary Flinn, senior editor of Blackbird. Claudia Emerson and David Wojahn introduce the poets.

Poetic Principles is sponsored by New Virginia Review, Inc., and the Library of Virginia.  end