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Career
He was educated at the University of Missouri, the University of Utah, and the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Donovan joined the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University in 1983, and soon after he began running its newly founded creative writing MFA program.

Poetry
Donovan's poetry is

The noted poet Richard Hugo selected first book, Icehouse Lights, as a winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. poems concern themselves with emotive basics: leaving home, watching those we love age and die, the inescapable drone of our mortality," Hugo wrote. "Yet as poems, they are far from usual. They help us welcome inside, again and again, the most personal of feelings."

has gone on to publish six more books of poetry, all with the University of Pittsburgh Press. Wojahn has also edited a volume of poetry by his late wife, Lynda Hull, entitled The Only World (HarperPerennial, 1995), as well as her more recent Collected Poems (Graywolf, 2006).

Awards

 * Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
 * writing residencies from the Yaddo, and McDowell colonies.
 * 1987-1988 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
 * Icehouse Lights, was chosen by Richard Hugo as a winner of the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Book Award.
 * Glassworks, awarded the Society of Midland Authors’ Award for best volume of poetry
 * Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004, was one of three named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library
 * In April 2007, Wojahn was one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Interrogation Palace.
 * 2003 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003
 * National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship
 * Illinois Arts Council award
 * the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Fellowship
 * William Carlos Williams Award
 * Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America
 * Vermont College’s Crowley/Weingarten Award for Excellence in Teaching
 * George Kent Prize from Poetry magazine
 * three Pushcart Prizes.
 * 2008 he was named VCU’s Outstanding Faculty Award Winner
 * 2008 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize.

Essays
(Published in Green Mountains Review 1988)
 * Strange Good Fortune (Arkansas, 2001)
 * "The Language of My Former Heart" : The Memory-Narrative In Recent American Poetry

Edited

 * Profile of Twentieth Century American Poetry, with Jack Myers (Southern Illinois University, 1991)
 * Profile of Twentieth Century American Poetry, with Jack Myers (Southern Illinois University, 1991)

Critical reception
Wojahn's Interrogation Palace has received a number of accolades, and has been received favorably by critics and fellow contemporary American poets.

Peter Campion, writing in Poetry magazine, called the new work "Superb. Powerful, panoramic. In Interrogation Palace Wojahn picked the perfect title: these are poems of both largesse and terror. . . . He writes with as much formal and emotional strength as any poet alive."

"Wojahn’s poems . . . integrate confessional and academic modes with honesty and skill," wrote Fred Muratori in Library Journal.

National Book Award-winner Jean Valentine wrote: "After September 11th, one of the first living poets I thought of was David Wojahn: someone who could follow our tragedy to its grave depths, with dignity and unsparingness, and egolessness, and who would stay with it—and us—as long as need be. For life. His poetry is, as Norman Dubie has said, the poetry of conscience; and here, at the birth of our new century, we are grateful."