YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA

Professor of the Council of the Humanities and Creative Writing

Campus Address: 185 Nassau Street, Room 124

Campus Phone: (609) 258-4711

Office Hours: T & W, 11:00 am -1:00 pm

For info. regarding Yusef Komunyakaa: angleseyzoe@att.net



AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

Poetry - Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, 1975-1999 (2001); Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000); Thieves of Paradise (1998) Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, 1999; Poetry Magazine's Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize, Morton Zabel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota Chapter, Harvard University; Poetry Magazine's Levinson Prize, 1998; Southern Literary Association's Hanes Poetry Prize, 1997; Neon Vernacular (1993), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award, Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry, William Faulkner Prize, 1994; Magic City (1992); Dien Cai Dau (1988); I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986); Copacetic (1984). Nonfiction - Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews and Commentaries (2000), NEA Fellowships in 1987 and 1981. A Chancellor, the Academy of American Poets.


LINKS

Academy of American Poets -- Yusef Komunyakaa

The Cortland Review -- Yusef Komunyakaa


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