C. D. Wright Remembers Frank Stanford

In her essay, “The Poet Frank Stanford Between Love and Death,” Academy Chancellor C. D. Wright remembers the work and life of Frank Stanford, born today in 1948.

Read poems from What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) here:

“The Visitors of Night”

“The Forgotten Madmen of Ménilmontant”

“Homage to Jacques Prévert”

“Cotton You Lose in the Field”