Rate My Professor David Wojahn

Wojahn's debut collection, Icehouse Lights (Yale University Press, 1982), received the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, selected by Richard Hugo, and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Book Award. He is the author of nine poetry collections, including Glassworks (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987), Mystery Train (1990), Late Empire (1994), The Falling Hour (1997), Spirit Cabinet (2002), Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004 (2006, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry), World Tree (2011, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Poets' Prize, and the Library of Virginia Literary Award), and For the Scribe (2017, Library of Virginia Literary Award and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award). His essay collections include Strange Good Fortune (University of Arkansas Press, 2001), From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2015), and Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters. Wojahn edited A Profile of Twentieth Century American Poetry (1991, co-editor with Jack Myers), The Only World (1995), and Collected Poems (2006) of Lynda Hull. Among his honors are the O.B. Hardison Poetry Prize (2007), fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, VCU's Outstanding Faculty Award (2009), and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award. Through his teaching and writing, Wojahn elevated VCU's creative writing program to national prominence and mentored generations of poets.