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Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with David Wojahn, Professor Emeritus of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters.

Description

Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters is David Wojahn’s third collection of essays on poetry. Secret Addressee is at once a sweeping and conscientious analysis of poetry’s importance in the context of heightened cultural politics and rapidly mutating communication. This careful scrutiny is matched by moving personal narrative and engaging storytelling.

About the Speaker

David Wojahn, Ph.D. is the author of three volumes of criticism and nine books of verse, among them Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1983-2004, a Named Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and World Tree, winner of the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize.  His latest collection of essays, Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters was issued by Unbound Editions in 2025. He lives in Richmond Virginia, where he is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a faculty member of the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.