Claudia Emerson

Claudia Emerson (January 13, 1957 – December 4, 2014) was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection Late Wife. She was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008. Emerson was born in Chatham, Virginia.

Emerson died in Richmond, Virginia from colon cancer, aged 57.

 Related pages 
List of poets from North America

References

Other websites
Claudia Emerson Papers at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia
Pulitzer Prize website, Emerson profile
Library of Congress reading (mp3 format file) Interview and poems 
Kooser, Ted, [http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/026.html  American Life in Poetry: Column 26--Claudia Emerson's poem "Stable']  Emerson's poems "Migrane, Aura and Aftermath" and "What They Want" in Visions International'' (issue #67)
 Williams, Susan Settlemyre, "Review | Pinion: An Elegy, by Claudia Emerson", Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 1, No. 2 December 16, 2002

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