Charles wright Trivia Quiz: An American Poet

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Charles Wright is an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac and shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems. He served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2014 to 2015. Wright taught at the University of California, Irvine, from 1966 to 1983, and then at the University of Virginia until he retired in 2010. He has published numerous poetry collections, including Zone Journals, Hard Freight, and Negative Blue.

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In what year did Charles Wright retire from the University of Virginia?

  • 2010

  • 1998

  • 1983

  • 1979

Where did Charles Wright earn his bachelor's degree?

  • Davidson College

  • University of Virginia

  • University of Iowa

  • Sapienza University of Rome

Where did Charles Wright attend high school?

  • Pickwick Dam, Tennessee

  • Asheville, North Carolina

  • Verona, Italy

  • Iowa City, Iowa

What was Charles Wright's job title at the University of Virginia?

  • Director

  • Chancellor

  • Professor

  • Vice President

What translation earned Charles Wright the PEN Translation Prize?

  • Black Zodiac

  • Hard Freight

  • Negative Blue

  • The Storm and Other Poems

What award did Charles Wright win for Chickamauga?

  • Pulitzer Prize

  • National Book Award

  • Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

  • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

What literary journal features Charles Wright's work?

  • Granta

  • The Paris Review

  • The New Yorker

  • Blackbird

Which poetry collection won Charles Wright the Pulitzer Prize?

  • Negative Blue

  • Black Zodiac

  • Zone Journals

  • Chickamauga

What was the first book for which Charles Wright shared the National Book Award?

  • Hard Freight

  • Black Zodiac

  • Chickamauga

  • Country Music: Selected Early Poems

What is the title of Charles Wright's first work of criticism?

  • Halflife

  • Chickamauga

  • Hard Freight

  • Quarter Notes

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