Yosa Buson
"Wheeling Motel" (Knopf, 2009), had selections put to music for the record "Readings from Wheeling Motel". Wright wrote the lyrics to and performs the Clem Snide song "Encounter at 3AM" on the album "Hungry Bird" (2009). Wright's most recent books include "Kindertotenwald" (Knopf, 2011), a collection of sixty-five prose poems concluding with a love poem to his wife, written while Wright had terminal lung cancer. The poem won "Poetry" magazine's premier annual literary prize for best work published in the magazine during 2011. The prose poem collection was followed in 2012 by "Buson: Haiku," a collection of translations of 30 haiku by the Japanese poet Yosa Buson, published in a limited edition of a few hundred copies by Tavern Books.