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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="date-display-single">Please join us for the following events:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady,
</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">a Public Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday, October 9, 11:45am<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">African American Studies Department, 81 Wall St., Rm 201<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Endeavors Colloquium, sponsored by the African American Studies Department</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Contact: <a href="mailto:lisa.monroe@yale.edu">lisa.monroe@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady, Poetry Reading
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Thursday, October 9, 4:00 pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street<br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series, Co-Sponsored by</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">and the African American Studies</span></em>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Department</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="date-display-single">Related News: <a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/news/beinecke-library-acquires-records-cave-canem-foundation">
Beinecke Library Acquires Records of Cave Canem Foundation</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">Toi Derricote’s books include The
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Undertaker's Daughter</span></em>;
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Tender</span></em>, winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize;
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Captivity</span></em>; <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Natural Birth</span></em>; and
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Empress of the Death House</span></em>. She is also the author of a literary memoir, T<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">he Black Notebooks</span></em>, which won the 1998 Annisfield-Wolf
Book Award for Non-Fiction. Her honors include the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, the Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award from the United Black Artists, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America,
and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">Cornelius Eady is the author of books including
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hardheaded Weather</span></em>;
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Brutal Imagination</span></em>, finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry;
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">the autobiography of a jukebox</span></em>;
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">You Don't Miss Your Water</span></em>;
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Gathering of My Name</span></em>;
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BOOM BOOM BOOM</span></em>; <em>
<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Victims of the Latest Dance Craze</span></em>; and
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Kartunes</span></em>. His honors include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and
the Rockefeller Foundation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">In 1996, poets Cornelius Eady and Toi Derricote founded Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization serving black poets and acting as a safe space for intellectual engagement and critical debate.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text
of the announcement, including contact information, to <a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
<a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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