Jay Wright ’61, M.A. ’67
A professional baseball player turned essayist, poet, and playwright, Wright became the first Black writer to win the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, and is regarded as one of the preeminent American poets of this century.
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A professional baseball player turned essayist, poet, and playwright, Wright became the first Black writer to win the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, and is regarded as one of the preeminent American poets of this century.