Jay Wright Writer

Jay Wright (born May 25, 1935) is an African-American poet, playwright, and essayist. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he currently lives in Bradford, Vermont. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim. Wright's work is emblematic of what the Guyanese-British writer Wilson Harris has termed the "cross-cultural imagination."

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 01, 1934
Nationality
United States
Ethnicity
African American
Mexican American

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award
Academy of American Poets
Bollingen Prize
MacArthur Fellows Program
genre
American poetry
influenced by
language
Spanish language
Dogon languages
English language

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