[Yale-readings] 2-23 4PM -- Yusef Komunyakaa Reading at Beinecke Library

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Yusef Komunyakaa, Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 23, 4:00 PM
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of
the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection
Contact: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu<mailto:nancy.kuhl at yale.edu>


Celebrated for his powerful and carefully crafted poems, Komunyakaa has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Louisiana Writers Award. About his work, the poet Toi Derricotte wrote for the Kenyon Review, "[Yusef Komunyakaa] takes on the most complex moral issues, the most harrowing ugly subjects of our American life. His voice, whether it embodies the specific experiences of a black man, a soldier in Vietnam, or a child, is universal. It shows us in ever deeper ways what it is to be human." The Beinecke Library acquired the papers of Yusef Komunyakaa in 2014.


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