| 6.5.2007

Updated 8.5.2020

”Like Something Christenberry Pictured”

C.D. Wright, Phi Beta Kappa poet, Guggenheim Fellow, MacArthur Fellow, and professor of English at Brown University, reads one of her works...

Photograph by Jim Harrison

C.D. Wright, Phi Beta Kappa poet, Guggenheim Fellow, MacArthur Fellow, and professor of English at Brown University, reads one of her works.

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Published in the print edition of the issue, in the section, under the headline, “”Like Something Christenberry Pictured” ”.

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