- Modern American Poetry: James Wright - http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/j_wright/j_wright.htm
From the online companion to the Oxford Modern American Poetry Anthology, this site contains a biography (with photographs) and criticism of several poems. It also includes the text of "At the Executed Murderer's Grave" and "Beginning".
- Robert Hass on James Wright - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/features/19980927.htm
A column from the Sept. 27, 1998 column by former Poet Laureate Robert Hass on James Wright. Contains the text of "Trying to Pray" and "Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry..."
- Todd Copeland's James Wright Page - http://www3.baylor.edu/~Todd_Copeland/Literature/Wright.html
Biography, a bibliography of Wright's work, and a brief discussion of the major criticism.
- James Wright Seattle Interviews - http://depts.washington.edu/engl/events/wright.html
Contains the text of two interviews Wright gave while visiting Seattle in 1972, with some interesting quotes.
- James Wright - http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/73
Academy of American Poets site. Contains a biography (with photograph), links to other sites, and the texts of three poems: "Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry, Ohio" (available in Real Audio, read by Wright), "Northern Pike", and "On the Skeleton of a Hound."
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