C. D. Wright (1949–2016) published numerous poetry collections, including Rising, Falling, Hovering, which won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize; One with Others, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry; and ShallCross (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster led to One Big Self: An Investigation, an intimate account of Louisiana inmates. Wright taught English at Brown University.

Photograph credit: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

On Privacy

An iPoem

by C. D. Wright

On the phone he told his sister
He hung strips of a plastic bag from his bunk

People on couch

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