NEW YORK (AP) – C.D. Wright, an award-winning poet renowned for her forceful and eclectic style and her passion for writing, has died. She was 67.
Wright died Tuesday at her home in Barrington, Rhode Island, according to publisher Copper Canyon Press. Spokeswoman Kelly Forsythe told The Associated Press on Thursday that Wright died “unexpectedly” and the cause had not yet been determined.
A native of Mountain Home, Arkansas, who often drew upon her childhood, Wright was a National Book Award finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle prize for her 2010 collection, “One With Others.” Her other books include “Rising, Falling, Hovering,” ”One Big Self” and “Steal Away.”
A former poet laureate of Rhode Island, Wright was a professor of poetry at Brown University at the time of her death.