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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.<br>
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Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of many collections
of poetry, including <i>Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems,
1975-1999</i>, <i>Talking Dirty to the Gods, Dien Cai Dau</i>, and
<i>Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989</i>. 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 <i>Southern Cross</i>.<br>
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For more information about and examples of Yusef Komunyakaa’s work please
visit:<br>
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<a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/22">
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/22</a><br>
<a href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/komunyakaa/poetry.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/komunyakaa/poetry.htm<br>
</a><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa.php">
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa.php</a><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Komunyakaa" eudora="autourl">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Komunyakaa</a><br><br>
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