David Wagoner has published seventeen books of poems, most recently Good Morning and Good Night (The University of Illinois Press, 2005), and ten novels, one of which, The Escape Artist, was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Lilly Prize in 1991, he has been nominated twice for the National Book Award, and has won the Zabel Prize, the Blumenthal-Leviton-Blonder Prize, the Eunice Tietjens Prize, the English-Speaking Union Prize, the Levinson Prize, the Union League Prize of Poetry (Chicago), and the William Stafford Memorial Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers. He was a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets for twenty-three years. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington since 1954 and was the editor of Poetry Northwest till its end in 2002.

Other poems by David Wagoner in Verse Daily:
June 16, 2003:  "The Son of a Carpenter" "He knew the shapes and the gnarled persuasions..."

About Crazyhorse:
Poets in this issue: Nicky Beer, Robert Bense, Jennie Berner, Paula Bohince, Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, Karen Kovacik, Rick Bursky, Michael Chitwood, A. V. Christie, Peter Cooley, Mike Dockins, Lisa Fishman, Chris Forhan, Cameron K. Gearen, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Timothy Liu, James McKean, Susan Meyers, Mary Molinary, Debra Nystrom, Jennie Panchy, Bryan Penberthy, Eric Rawson, Young Smith, Katherine Soniat, Deborah Tall, Alpay Ulku, Nance Van Winckel, David Wagoner, Daneen Wardrop, Theodore Worozbyt