BIRTH OF A POET

Claudia Emerson was born on this day in 1957, in Chatham. Virginia. 

She was a poet, and Professor of English, who has won many awards and honors throughout her distinguished career.

She has taught at several colleges as an English professor, and has been an Editor at more than a few  publications.

During that time she has published five poetry collections, and her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies.

In 2006 she received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her collection of poems,  "Late Wife."

In 2008, she was appointed Poet Laureate of the state of Virginia, where she served until 2010.

In 2013 to joined the creative writing staff at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she taught until her death last year on December 4th, a little over a month ago.

During the early part of her life, she graduated from  Chatham Preparatory School in 1975, went on to the University of Virginia, where she received a BA in English in 1979 and in 1991, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Her sixth collection of poetry, "The Opposite House," is scheduled to be published later this year in March 2015.

To read the details of her short, but outstanding career Google -search her name