David Wagoner

David Wagoner, a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, has published eighteen books of poems, most recently A Map of the Night (University of Illinois Press, 2008), and ten novels, one of which, The Escape Artist, was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and, twice, for the National Book Award. He edited Poetry Northwest from 1966 to its end, in 2002.

Articles

• A Preface to the History of Chairs

  A poem by David Wagoner

• A Footnote to the History of the New York Central Railroad

  Poetry by David Wagoner

• Thoreau and the Loose Cow

  Poetry by David Wagoner

• Thoreau and the Lightning

  Poetry by David Wagoner