Let's make this birthday one to remember.

76 years old (Born on January 06, 1949)

Happy Birthday to the brilliant Carolyn D. Wright! Your poetry has risen, fallen, hovered—and occasionally danced circles around us all—leaving readers delightfully dizzy and critics scrambling for new adjectives. Winning awards like the Griffin Poetry Prize and National Book Award is impressive enough; doing it while making language bend gracefully at your whim? Now that's poetic magic.

From String Light illuminating our imaginations to One with Others reminding us of humanity's shared heartbeat—you've given literature a voice both profound and playful. May this birthday be filled not just with cake (though plenty of that!), but also endless inspiration worthy of another literary masterpiece—or two!