A reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright
Franz Wright was born in Vienna in 1953 and grew up in the Midwest and Northern California. He has published more than 15 collections of poetry and 5 translations of modern and contemporary French and German poets, including Ranier Maria Rilke. In 2003 he received the Voelcker Prize for Poetry and in 2004 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Wright and his father, acclaimed poet James Wright, are the only parent-child pair to win Pulitzer Prizes in the same category. Franz Wright’s papers are in the Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
This event was co-sponsored by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.