Claudia Emerson, whose book of piercing poems about one marriage ending and another beginning won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, died Thursday in Richmond, Virginia. She was 57. The cause was ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Claudia Emerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, died early Thursday morning at age 57 after a long battle with cancer, the university ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The ceiling fixture in Claudia Emerson’s study only weakly puts out light. Her husband, Kent Ippolito, apologizes for it, but it’s no bother. The room isn’t oriented toward the house.

“Claudia Emerson was unquestionably a poet of the highest caliber and achievement, a poet whose work needs no one to speak on its behalf,” said Kathleen Graber, associate professor and director of ...

April means Patriot’s Day, recalling Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn,” commemorating the local farmers who “fired the shot heard round the world.” Book review Philosopher Henry David Thoreau, ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a former poet laureate of Virginia, Claudia Emerson, has passed away from cancer. She was 57. Emerson, who came to teach at Virginia Commonwealth University in the ...

“She had a deep, abiding love for her students and their success,” said Teresa Kennedy, an English professor at Mary Washington who was department chairwoman when Ms. Emerson was there. “A lot of ...

Claudia Emerson, whose book of piercing poems about one marriage ending and another beginning won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, died Thursday in Richmond, Va. She was 57. The cause was cancer, ...