[Yale-readings] Thursday 10-9: Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady at Yale

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Please join us for the following events:

Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady,
a Public Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander
Thursday, October 9, 11:45am
African American Studies Department, 81 Wall St., Rm 201
Endeavors Colloquium, sponsored by the African American Studies Department
Contact: lisa.monroe at yale.edu<mailto:lisa.monroe at yale.edu>

Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady, Poetry Reading
Thursday, October 9, 4:00 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series, Co-Sponsored by
and the African American Studies Department
Contact: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu<mailto:nancy.kuhl at yale.edu>

Toi Derricote's books include The Undertaker's Daughter; Tender, winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize; Captivity; Natural Birth; and The Empress of the Death House. She is also the author of a literary memoir, The Black Notebooks, 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.

Cornelius Eady is the author of books including Hardheaded Weather; Brutal Imagination, finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; the autobiography of a jukebox; You Don't Miss Your Water; The Gathering of My Name; BOOM BOOM BOOM; Victims of the Latest Dance Craze; and Kartunes. 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.

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.

The Beinecke Library recently acquired the Cornelius Eady's archives<http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/african-american-studies-beinecke-library-poetry-beinecke-library/2014/09/09/cornelius> and The Cave Canem Foundation's records<http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/african-american-studies-beinecke-library-poetry-beinecke-library/2014/09/09/cave-canem>.



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