Charles Simic

Charles Simic (1938 - Present)

Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is an American poet. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, he immigrated to the USA in 1953. His first collection of poems What the Grass Says, was published in 1966. Since that time he has written prolifically and, in 1990, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his collection The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems.