Franz Wright (born March 18, 1953) is an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category. Read full biography of Franz Wright →
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action... →
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon... →
When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and... →
Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
I wish my father could be around.
I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.
There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The... →
Franz Wright (born March 18, 1953) is an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category.