That Little Something

Charles Simic (1938–2023) was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and emigrated to the United States in 1954. He won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The World Doesn't End (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989) and served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2007 to 2008. His later collections include Hotel Insomnia (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992) and The Voice at 3:00 A.M. (Harcourt, 2003). He taught American literature and creative writing for more than three decades at the University of New Hampshire and received a MacArthur Fellowship.