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Charles Simic

Charles Simic
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Charles Simic

Born: 9 May 1938 • Died: 9 January 2023

Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of the most visceral and unique poets writing today. His work has won numerous awards, among them the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the appointment as US poet laureate. Simic’s first poems were published in 1959, when he was 21. His first full-length collection of poems, What the Grass Says, was published in 1967. His book of prose poems, The World Doesn't End, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990 and Jackstraws (1999) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year. (Source)

Poems by Charles Simic

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Blood Orange by Charles Simic

September 22, 2026
“Everything is teetering on the edge of everything / With a polite smile.” — Charles Simic
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Untitled by Charles Simic

August 26, 2025
“In the hush your heart sounds / like a black cricket.” — Charles Simic
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Watermelons by Charles Simic

February 26, 2011
"We eat the smile / And spit out the teeth." — Charles Simic
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This Morning by Charles Simic

February 8, 2011
"You visit the same tailors the mourners do, / Mr. Ant." — Charles Simic
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Position without a Magnitude by Charles Simic

January 16, 2006
"And you shudder / As you realize it's only you" — Charles Simic
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The Partial Explanation by Charles Simic

September 9, 2005
"And you shudder / As you realize it's only you" — Charles Simic