21. Yusef Komunyakaa The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/ykomu/

22. Yusef Komunyakaa@The Internet Poetry Archive yusef komunyakaa s Libretto, testimony, And The Humanity Of Charlie Parker Memories And The Vietnam War Experience In yusef komunyakaa s Dien Cai Dau http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa.php

Seamus Heaney Yusef Komunyakaa Philip Levine Czeslaw Milosz ... Contact the IPA Yusef Komunyakaa Poems Ode To The Maggot Ode To The Racoon Lime Venus'-flytraps ... Facing It The Poetry Of Yusef Komunyakaa Sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the North Carolina Arts Council Created and edited by Paul Jones paul_jones@unc.edu with the kind assistance of Dykki Settle, Chris Colomb, Max Leach,Kelly Jo Garner, clark mccabe, David McConville, Donald Sizemore, Marisa Brickman, and Mark McCarthy. 2006 Layout, Design and Audio encoding by TJ Ward and Dan Lucas Project editor: David Perry , editor for UNC Press.

23. Yusef Komunyakaa www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ poets/g_l/komunyakaa/komunyakaa.htm Similar pages Bio Sketches yusef komunyakaayusef komunyakaaborn 1947 and raised in Bogalusa, Louisianaserved in Vietnam as an information specialist, saw combat, and received the Bronze Star. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/komunyakaa/komunyakaa.htm

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24. Princeton - PWB 020998 - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Teaches In Creative Writing In 1984, yusef komunyakaa found himself at a crossroads in life. Since the early 70s he had been knocking around the academic world, collecting one http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/98/0209/0209-1b.html

From the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, February 9, 1998 How many bricks Pulitzer Prize-winning poet teaches in Creative Writing program By JoAnn Gutin Photo by Denise Applewhite In 1984, Yusef Komunyakaa found himself at a crossroads in life. Since the early '70s he had been knocking around the academic world, collecting one undergraduate and a couple of graduate degrees, assorted honors and the occasional fellowship. From 1980 on he had been teaching, but under fairly grueling and not especially fulfilling conditions: English Composition at a big commuter college; visiting artist in the public schools. But in 1984 Komunyakaa was offered a one-year position in the creative writing program at Indiana University. Most people would have jumped at the chance, but not Komunyakaa. Now, sitting behind his desk in his immaculate, sunny office in 185 Nassau St., he recalls the dilemma. "I had to decide whether to continue on the academic path or to follow in my father's footsteps and become a carpenter. And I thought, `If I become a carpenter, I'll have time for my real work.'" Komunyakaa's real work is writing poetry. He decided to take the Indiana job, but not as a stepping stone to academic respectability. "I figured I'd do it for a year and make enough money to buy a good set of tools. And my father always said, `If you know the tools, you can do the job.'"

25. Poet: Yusef Komunyakaa - All Poems Of Yusef Komunyakaa Poet yusef komunyakaa All poems of yusef komunyakaa .. poetry. http://www.poemhunter.com/yusef-komunyakaa/

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26. PAL: Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) Chapter 10 yusef komunyakaa (1947 ). Outside Link Modern American Poetry YK Reuben, Paul P. Chapter 10 yusef komunyakaa. http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/komun.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) Modern American Poetry: YK Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present MLA Style Citation of this Web Page ... Home Page Source: Internet Poetry Archive Primary Works The Jazz poetry anthology. edited by Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991-1996. PS595 .J34 J39 Magic city. Middletown, Conn.: UP of New England, 1992. PS3561 .O455 M34 Neon vernacular: new and selected poems. Middletown, Conn.: UP of New England, 1993. PS3561 .O455 N46 Thieves of paradise. Middletown, CT: UP of New England, 1998. PS3561 .O455 T45 Talking dirty to the gods: poems. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. PS3561 .O455 T35 Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries. edited by Radiclani Clytus. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000. PS3561 .O455 Z463 Also Dedications and Other Darkhorses

27. The Panorama: Poetry: The New Yorker by yusef komunyakaa November 12, 2007. Text Size Small Text Medium Text Large Text. Print EMail Feeds. It seems we’ve slowed down the spinning earth, http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/11/12/071112po_poem_komunyakaa

@import "/css/global.css"; @import "/css/article.css"; @import "/css/clear-children.css"; Skip to content Subscribe to The New Yorker Give a gift Renew your Subscription ... The New Yorker Poetry The Panorama by Yusef Komunyakaa November 12, 2007 Text Size: Small Text Medium Text Large Text Print ... Feeds Keywords Battles Soldiers War Trees ... Birches The peasants on the canvas wall, who are used to dust in their spit, rose for their battle commander, swinging long-handled scythes against the Russian infantrymen The open-air light makes it hard to tell if the tall whitish birches are real or painted. It took them only nine months to their position with ropes. Our Lady of Czestochowa unfurled in the wounded daylight. Dead horses beside as Polish sharpshooters take aim. We stand there cavaliers caught in a waterfall of hues, momentarily Print E-Mail Feeds Digg ... Reddit More In This Section Poetry: Through by Ciaran Carson Poetry: Fidget by John Hollander Poetry: Science Fiction by Les Murray Poetry: Fishing Around by Robert Mezey ... Poetry: Cairo, N.Y. by Cornelius Eady

28. Mountain Writers Series ::: Board & Staff yusef komunyakaa, a PulitzerPrize-winning poet, has been appointed the Distinguished Senior Poet at New York University. komunyakaa will be part of the http://www.mountainwriters.org/boardstaff.html

Mountain Writers Series pdxmws@mountainwriters.org HOME ABOUT THE SERIES OUR COMMUNITY ... DONATE Board Members Sandra Williams Lynn Darroch Robert Kreider Timothy John Schell ... Robert W. Nunn Staff Bob Kreider Sandra Williams, Board President Sandra Williams began coordination of Mountain Writers Series in 1973 at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon, where she taught until her retirement in 2001. In her capacity as director of Mountain Writers Series, she has coordinated Northwest Regional Residencies, which have brought hundreds of authors to the region for literary events at high schools, colleges, and community arts centers. Active in regional and national literary community for over thirty years, she has also served as coordinator for the "Across the River" program for Oregon and Washington, worked on the Board of Directors for the Portland Poetry Festival, and worked on program development for the Western States Arts Federation. In 1990, the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts presented her with the Stewart H. Holbrook Award for significant contribution toward the advancement of literary life in Oregon. Also a published poet, she was awarded an Oregon Institute of Literary Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1991. Her collection of poems, Detours, published in 1995, was nominated for an Oregon Book Award in Poetry. Back to top Lynn Darroch

29. Yusef Komunyakaa - Millennium 2000 Feature - The Cortland Review yusef komunyakaa, Real Audio Poetry Reading and Interview with David Lehman. http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/millennium/index.html

T HE C ORTLAND R EVIEW HOME YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA - MILLENNIUM 2000 FEATURE Issues and Features 12/06 Sonnet Feature (Aug '06) Issue 33 (Aug '05) Issue 29 (May '05) Issue 28 (Jan '05) Issue 27 (May '04) Issue 26 (Mar '04) Issue 25 (Nov '03) Issue 24 (May '03) Issue 23 (Feb '03) Issue 22 (Aug '02) Issue 21 (May '02) Issue 20 (Feb '02) Issue 19 (Nov '01) Issue 18 (Aug '01) Issue 17 (May '01) Issue 16 (Feb '01) Issue 15 (Nov '00) Issue 14 (Aug '00) Issue 12 (May '00) Issue 11 (Feb '00) Issue 10 (Nov '99) Issue Nine (Aug '99) Issue Eight (May '99) Issue Seven (Feb '99) Issue Six (Nov '98) Issue Five (Aug '98) Issue Four (May '98) Issue Three 04/06 Feature 01/06 Richard Jackson 04/05 Kurt Brown 04/04 Stephen Dobyns 02/04 Robert Fink 04/03 Lucille Clifton 12/02 Denise Duhamel 09/02 Tory Dent 07/02 Sharon Olds 04/02 Billy Collins 12/01 Stanley Kunitz 04/01 Poet and Poem 5 12/00 Kaydi Johnson 10/00 Dodge Festival 06/00 Timothy Steele 04/00 Charles Bernstein 03/00 Stephen Dunn Millennium Feature 10/99 Gibbons Ruark 09/99 David Lehman 07/99 William Heath 06/99 Peter Robinson 1999 RealVideo Poetry 1999 AWP Conference 04/99 Favorite Poems 03/99 DeWayne Rail 01/99 Mark Jarman 1998 Holiday Special 12/98 Mark Doty 10/98 Michael Heller 09/98 John Tranter 07/98 Miriam Levine 06/98 Stellasue Lee 04/98 Robert Creeley 03/98 Robert Pinsky TCR Home 2000 F EATURE Yusef Komunyakaa An interview with Yusef Komunyakaa by David Lehman and a reading of some of his finest poems, all in RealAudio.

30. Ploughshares, The Literary Journal yusef komunyakaa speaks in a gravelly Southern baritone, tinged with a Cajun flavor that reflects his childhood years in Louisiana. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleid=4251

31. Yusef Komunyakaa Biography yusef komunyakaa Biography Born 1947 and raised in Bogalusa, Louisiana, komunyakaa served in Vietnam as an information specialist, saw combat, and. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yusef_komunyakaa/biography

Famous Poets and Poems: Home Poets Poem of the Month Poet of the Month ... Love Poems Search for: Poets Poems FamousPoetsAndPoems.com Poets Yusef Komunyakaa / Biography Biography Poems Books Post Your Poems Popular Poets Langston Hughes Shel Silverstein Pablo Neruda Maya Angelou ... All Poets See also: Love Poems and Quotes Poets by Nationality African American Poets Women Poets ... Meaning of Names Yusef Komunyakaa Biography Back to Poet Page Enlarge Picture Born 1947 and raised in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as an information specialist, saw combat, and received the Bronze Star. A graduate of the University of Colorado, he also received master's degrees from the University of California, Irvine, and Colorado State University. After teaching at the University of New Orleans, Komunyakaa was a professor at Indiana University for over ten years, and, in the fall of 1997, he began teaching at Princeton University. Yusef Komunyakaa is professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University. Wesleyan has published six of his ten books, including the Pulitzer prize-winning Neo Vernacular (1993), which also won the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award from the Claremont Graduate School, magic City (1992), and Dien Cai Dau (1988). In 1991, he won the Thomas Forcade award, in 1993 was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, in 1994 received the William Faulkner Prize from the University of Rennes in France, and in 1997 he was awarded the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine and the Hanes Poetry Prize. His new book from Wesleyan is Thieves of Paradise.

32. Yusef Komunyakaa, Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It, Facing It By Yusef yusef komunyakaa, yusef komunyakaa facing it, facing it by yusef komunyakaa, history on lime which was written by yusef komunyakaa, yusef komunyakaa http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa.html

Yusef Komunyakaa AfroPoets.Net Famous Black Writers o Home o Poetry Board o PoeticQ.com - Famous Writers Gallery o PoeticSpace.com - MySpace For Poets... Picture Brief Bio Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, the oldest of five children, Komunyakaa is the son of a carpenter and of a mother who bought a set of encyclopedias for her children. When he was sixteen, he discovered James Baldwin's essays and decided to become a writer. From 1965 to 1968, Komunyakaa served a tour of duty in Vietnam as an information specialist, editing a military newspaper called the Southern Cross. In Vietnam he won the Bronze Star. After military service, he enrolled at the University of Colorado (double major in English and sociology) and began writing poetry. Upon graduation in 1980, he studied further at both Colorado State University (where he received an M.A. in creative writing) and the University of California, Irvine (where he received an M.F.A.) and taught at various universities before moving to New Orleans. While teaching at the University of New Orleans, in 1985, he married Australian novelist Mandy Sayer. Only then, nearly twenty years after his Vietnam experiences, did Komunyakaa write his important war poems, published in 1988 as Dien Cai Dau.

33. Venus Of Willendorf - 98.09 A poem by yusef komunyakaa. yusef komunyakaa is the author of Neon Vernacular (1993) and Thieves of Paradise (1998). He teaches creative writing at http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/komunyak/venus.htm

S E P T E M B E R 1 9 9 8 VENUS OF WILLENDORF by Yusef Komunyakaa Return to: An Audible Anthology Poetry Pages She's big as a man's fist, Big as a black-pepper shaker Filled with gris-gris dust, Like two fat gladiolus bulbs Grown into a burst of twilight. With all the bloomy hosannas Of love-hunger. Beautiful In a way that forces us to look At the ground, this squat Venus in her braided helmet Is carved from a hunk of limestone Shaped into a blues singer. In her big smallness She makes us kneel. Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of Neon Vernacular (1993) and Thieves of Paradise (1998). He teaches creative writing at Princeton University. The Atlantic Monthly; September 1998; Venus of Willendorf; Volume 282, No. 3; page 86.

34. Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows: Yusef Komunyakaa (UC Irvine Libraries) yusef komunyakaa (with Sharon Olds), Audiotape Archives, The Academy of American Poets, yusef komunyakaa and Judale Carr, ZipZap E-Zine, Issue no. http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/fellows/komunbib.html

UC Irvine Libraries Series' Bibliographies: The UC Irvine Libraries support the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series by providing a bibliography of the works of each Fellow. The bibliographies are available in print at the Langson and Science Libraries and at each public event. 1999 - 2000 Series Yusef Komunyakaa UC Irvine Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow A Selective Bibliography: The UC Irvine Libraries May 11, 2000 Cathy Palmer, English and Comparative Literature Librarian The UC Irvine Libraries Books Books of Essays Editor or Co-Editor of Books Selected Journal Publications (Poetry) ... Selected Websites Books . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. on order for Main Thieves of Paradise . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. Main PS 3561 O455 T45 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 1977-1989 . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993. Main PS 3561 O455 N46 1993 (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1994) Magic City . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1992. Main PS 3561 O455 M34 1992

35. Yusef Komunyakaa On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online yusef komunyakaa. Credit Denise Applewhite, 2001 There are 2 conversations about yusef komunyakaa s books. Users with books by yusef komunyakaa http://www.librarything.com/author/komunyakaayusef

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog Prof. Yusef Komunyakaa. Credit: Denise Applewhite, 2001 (photo courtesy of Princeton University) 1 picture add a picture Author: Yusef Komunyakaa Also known as: yusef komunyakaa Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Yusef Komunyakaa combine/separate works Neon vernacular : new and selected poems 94 copies, review The Best American Poetry, 2003 64 copies, 1 review Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan Poetry) 51 copies, review Talking dirty to the gods : poems 47 copies, review Magic city 35 copies, review Pleasure dome : new and collected poems 34 copies, review Thieves of paradise 25 copies, review Taboo 15 copies, 1 review I apologize for the eyes in my head 3 copies, review 2 copies, review Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (Wesleyan Poetry) 2 copies, review Scandalize My Name: Selected Poems 1 copy, review 1 copy, review 1 copy, review A Book Called Rats (A Lynx House Book) 1 copy, review see all 17 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars

36. New York State Writers Institute - Yusef Komunyakaa Pulitzer Prizewinning poet yusef komunyakaa is a unique figure in American poetry and the author of eleven poetry volumes. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/komunyakaayusef.html

The Writer PBS Series Channel 17 Sunday at 1:30 p.m. October 7, 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa is a unique figure in American poetry and the author of eleven poetry volumes. Komunyakaa's poetry is celebrated for its short lines, its simple vernacular language, its jazzy feel, and its rootedness in the poet's experience as a Black child of the American South, and as a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. Komunyakaa's most recent collection is Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000, FSG), and his earlier collections include Thieves of Paradise (1998, Univ Press of New England), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Neon Vernacular (1993), which received the Pulitzer Prize, Magic City (1992) and Dien Cai Dau Yusef Komunyakaa currently teaches at Princeton, where he is a professor in the Council of Humanities and the Creative Writing Program. In 1999, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In addition to his many publications and poetry collections, he is coeditor (with Sascha Feinstein) of two volumes of "The Jazz Poetry Anthology:" from Indiana University Press. Komunyakaa was a visiting writer at the Writers Institute on March 8, 2001.

37. University Libraries News: Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Yusef Komunyakaa At Write yusef komunyakaa will read at Writers in the Library on Monday, November 6 at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library. http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/archives/writers_in_the_library/001456.html

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38. Poetry Foundation: The Online Home Of The Poetry Foundation In his poetry, yusef komunyakaa weaves together the elements of his own life in short lines of vernacular to create complex images of life in his native http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3823

39. Project MUSE yusef komunyakaa is author of a number of volumes of poems, the most recent being Taboo The Wishbone Trilogy, Part I. The many prizes, awards and honors he http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v029/29.3dargan.html

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40. Poetry Reading: Yusef Komunyakaa « African American Studies At Beinecke Library Please join us for a poetry reading by yusef komunyakaa on Thursday, September 20, 4 pm. This event is free and open to the public. http://beineckejwj.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/poetry-reading-yusef-komunyakaa/

@import url( http://s.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/k2/style.css?m=1192581927 ); African American Studies at Beinecke Library Blog About JWJ Collection at Beinecke ... Poetry Reading: Yusef Komunyakaa Published September 10, 2007 Events announcements Please join us for a poetry reading by Yusef Komunyakaa on Thursday, September 20, 4 pm. This event is free and open to the public. The Beinecke Library is located at 121 Wall Street, New Haven. Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of many collections of poetry, including Talking Dirty to the Gods, Dien Cai Dau , and . He has received awards from the Louisiana Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam, where he served as a correspondent and managing editor of the Southern Cross For additional information about poetry at the Beinecke Library visit: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com. For more information about and examples of Yusef Komunyakaa’s work visit: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/22

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