Charles Simic

Charles Simic was widely recognized as one of the most visceral and unique poets of his generation. His work won numerous awards, among them the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” a Griffin International Poetry Prize, a Wallace Stevens Award, and an appointment as US poet laureate. He taught English and creative writing for over 30 years at the University of New Hampshire. He emigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia as a teenager, Simic drew upon his own experiences of war-torn Belgrade to compose poems about the physical and spiritual poverty of modern life.