[Yale-readings] TOMORROW: Yusef Komunyakaa at Beinecke

[Nancy Kuhl]

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. For 
additional information about poetry at the Beinecke Library visit: 
<http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/>http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/; 
for additional information about African American Studies at Beinecke 
Library visit: 
<http://beineckejwj.wordpress.com/>http://beineckejwj.wordpress.com/. 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 Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999, Talking 
Dirty to the Gods, Dien Cai Dau, and Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 
1977-1989. 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 more information about and examples of Yusef Komunyakaa's work please 
visit:

<http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/22>http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/22
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/komunyakaa/poetry.htm
<http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa.php>http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Komunyakaa


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