Charles Wright (poet)

Charles Wright is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the 20th Poet Laureate of the United States.

25 August 1935

Born on the same birth day (25 August): Arpad Elo • Duleep Mendis • Jimmy Hannan • Jonathan Togo • Maxim Kontsevich • Nikolaus Lenau • Rijkman Groenink • Saburō Sakai

Born in the same month (August 1935): Alexandra Bellow • Andreas Stamatiadis • Annie Proulx • Bobby Richardson • Bryan Organ • Geoff Pullar • Gilles Rocheleau • Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt • Hifikepunye Pohamba • Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby • Jim Dale • Karen Spärck Jones • Michael Holroyd • Michael J. Noonan (Fianna Fáil politician) • Octavio Getino • Rahsaan Roland Kirk • Roy Benavidez