Claudia Emerson's most recent book, Late Wife (LSU, 2005) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Other poems by Claudia Emerson in Verse Daily:
February 18, 2007:   "After the Affair" "There was no one to tell, so it settled..."
June 5, 2005:  from "Girls' School" ""Everything here measures: weight, effort, sin..."
February 2, 2005:  "Second Bearing, 1919" "I have asked him to tell it..."

About Tar River Poetry:
Poets in this issue: Claudia Emerson, Michael White, Jeffrey Franklin, Leslie Norris, Rebecca McClanahan, James Brasfield, Cindy Hunter Morgan, Thomas Reiter, Chris Dombrowski, Richard Cecil, Don Welch, Roger Mitchell, J. T. Ledbetter, Louis Simpson, Peter Makuck, J. Stephen Rhodes, Marsha Truman Cooper, Richard Newman, Emily Smith, Jan LaPerie, Janice Moore Fuller, Howard Nelson, Jack Roberts, Carri Hendricks, Cody Lumpkin, Tim Peeler, Ronald Wallace, Susan Allen Ford, Phebe Davidson, Mike W. Blottenberger, Mary Hutchins Harris, M. J. Iuppa