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about programs calendar publications ... Readings Faculty Featured Poems Poet, essayist and playwright Elizabeth Alexander is the author of four books of poems, including American Sublime , a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, and a collection of essays, The Black Interior . The recipient of many grants and honors, in 2007 she was awarded the first annual Jackson Poetry Prize, a recognition honoring an American poet of exceptional talent who has published at least one book of recognized literary merit. In 2005 she received the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954. She is a professor at Yale University and a Cave Canem faculty member. Featured Poem: Body of Life Cyrus Cassells is the author of four books of poetry, including Beautiful Signor , winner of the Lambda Literary Award, and Soul Make a Path through Shouting , which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received the William Carlos Williams Award. His The Mud Actor was a National Poetry Series selection. Additional honors include a Pushcart Prize; the Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poets Award; and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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NJPoets Index Great NJ Poet's Portraits NJ Fiction NJ Reviews ... PoetsUSA.com (Wise Women's Web) Italian American Writers.com NJ Past Events Yusef Komunyakaa: A Biographical Bibliography Yusef Komunyakaa Pulitizer Prize winning poet, Yusef Komunyakaa, feels that his work has been influenced by other New Jersey poets, William Carlos Williams and Amiri Barka , as well as by such poets as Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Tolson, Sterling Brown, Helen Johnson, Margaret Walker, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Komunyakaa has won two Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1981, 1987 and inclusion in such prestigious collections as the Norton Anthology of Southern Literature and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. In 1999, he was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. A resident poet of New Jersey, Yusef Komunyakaa The Southern Cross , Dedications and Other Darkhorses , 1977, and Lost in the Bonewheel Factory Komunyakaa went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts at the University of California at Irvine in 1980, and, in the same year, joined the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center where he met a community of artists. The poet felt that his stay at the center helped him to develop his own style and gain a deeper understanding of himself as a writer. He has said that " a sort of unearthing has to take place; sometimes one has to remove layers of facades and superficialities. The writer has to get down to the guts of the thing and rediscover the basic timbre of his or her existence." Since 1980, Yusef Komunyakaa has published eight additional volumes of poetry and co-edited two anthologies. His third collection

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48. NYU > The Office Of Public Affairs > Poet Yusef Komunyakaa To Join NYU As Distin New York University has appointed yusef komunyakaa, a PulitzerPrize-winning poet, its Distinguished Senior Poet. komunyakaa will be part of the faculty in http://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/786

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49. Trico Libraries News And Notes: Read More On Yusef Komunyakaa Pulitzer Prizewinning poet yusef komunyakaa will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, April 19, at 730 p.m., in the Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2007/04/read_more_on_yusef_komunyakaa.htm

trico libraries news and notes Read more on Yusef Komunyakaa Posted by Arleen Zimmerle on April 13, 2007 at 10:37 AM Posted in Bryn Mawr Events Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. , in the Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae House. Check out Komunyakaa's books in Tripod. Read about Komunyakaa in Literature Resource Center. Listen to an interview and reading at CortlandReview.com. Read and listen to poems at the Internet Poetry Archive. Bryn Mawr Haverford Swarthmore recent posts Winter break hours Library Suggestion Book Online! Take a Study Break: Rare Documents in Special Collections Perfect Study Breakthe Sharpless Gallery Exhibit at Magill ... What's up with those "Maybe you should become a librarian" posters in toilet stalls across campus? categories Databases Events Exhibits Features ... What We're Reading posts by college Bryn Mawr Haverford Swarthmore archives by Month Main Archive January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 November 2003 October 2003

50. Yusef Komunyakaa To Read His Poems At The Library . . . - The Library Today (Lib On Thursday, April 12, poet yusef komunyakaa will read his poems at the Library of Congress. The program, presented under the auspices of the Gertrude http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2001/01-056.html

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52. Poéfrika: FACING IT (by Yusef Komunyakaa) FACING IT (by yusef komunyakaa). My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. I said I wouldn t, dammit No tears. I m stone. I m flesh. http://poefrika.blogspot.com/2007/04/facing-it.html

skip to main skip to sidebar Po©frika A weblog of creative Africa-inspired writing 30 April 2007 FACING IT (by Yusef Komunyakaa) My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. I said I wouldn't, dammit: No tears. I'm stone. I'm flesh. My clouded reflection eyes me like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning. I turn this waythe stone lets me go. I turn that wayI'm inside the Vietnam Veterans Memorial again, depending on the light to make a difference. I go down the 58,022 names, half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke. I touch the name Andrew Johnson; I see the booby trap's white flash. Names shimmer on a woman's blouse but when she walks away the names stay on the wall. Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's wings cutting across my stare. The sky. A plane in the sky. A white vet's image floats closer to me, then his pale eyes look through mine. I'm a window. He's lost his right arm inside the stone. In the black mirror a woman's trying to erase names: No, she's brushing a boy's hair. Yusef Komunyakaa LISTEN Posted by Rethabile in african-american poetry courage mourning poem poem of the week 15 voices: Thami Mhlanga said...

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54. Amardeep Singh: The American Poet, In Burdwan The one that stands out to me is The Beautiful Quickness of a Street Boy, by yusef komunyakaa, a wellknown African-American poet. http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2005/12/american-poet-in-burdwan.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=6629664"); Saturday, December 31, 2005 The American Poet, in Burdwan There are poems on the Op-Ed page of the NYT today. The one that stands out to me is "The Beautiful Quickness of a Street Boy," by Yusef Komunyakaa, a well-known African-American poet. It is based on an experience he had during his recent trip to India, where he had trouble getting a persistent child beggar to leave him alone, so he gave the child a rose. The child, delighted with the flower, promptly walked across the street and sold it to someone else. That street boy, as if he sprung out of me, out of another time, is still pleading with everything he knows Read the whole poem here Goutam Dutta, who hosted Komunyakaa during his visit to Bengal, wrote about this incident in Callaloo this past summer, and even wrote his own poem about it. ( Callaloo is behind Project Muse, so I can't give a link.) Here is Dutta's version: On January 25 we went to Howrah Station (the Grand Central Station of Kolkata) to catch a train to Burdwan, a large rural town about seventy kilometers from Kolkata where we had two programs scheduled. Burdwan is almost at the midpoint between Kolkata and Shantiniketan, and the train reached the town by noon. We were greeted by Rotary club members and little girls who gave us garlands and red roses.

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56. Powell's Books - Neon Vernacular By Yusef Komunyakaa A collection of poems from the author s earlier books combined with a dozen new poems interweave memory and history http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0819512117

57. The National Poetry Series MtvU Prize Born in 1947, Louisiana native yusef komunyakaa has earned worldwide acclaim for his yusef komunyakaa is the author of twelve collections of poetry, http://www.mtvu.com/contests/nationalpoetryseries/2007/komunyakaa.jhtml

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Home FAQ Posts filed under 'Yusef Komunyakaa' Thanks Yusuf Komunyakaa Listen Thanks for the tree sway seconds before the Viet Cong raised his soundless rifle. Some voice always followed, telling me which foot to put down first. Thanks for deflecting the ricochet against that anarchy of dusk. I was back in San Francisco to be shattered by daylight when my hands reached up from my face. Thanks for the vague white flower that pointed to me the gleaming metal reflecting how it is to be broken like mist over the grass, as we played some deadly game for blind gods. What made me spot the monarch writhing on a single thread holding the day together like an unfingered guitar string, is beyond me. Maybe the hills Again, thanks for the dud hand grenade tossed at my feet falling through its silence. sun touched the bayonet, but I know that something stood among those lost trees Dien Cai Dau Dien Cai Dau [falstaff] Add comment September 21, 2007 from Autobiography of My Alter Ego Yusef Komunyakaa Listen I did what I did. To see friends turn into ghosts among the reeds, to do

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