Noted Poet Will Read From Works Reflecting
Black Experience
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus on October 28
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alka Gupta and Peg Byron
September, 2002 |
Brooklyn, N.Y. - Acclaimed as one of the country's
finest poets, Cornelius Eady will read his poetry, much of which
depicts the African-American experience in America, at Long Island
University's Brooklyn Campus.
Part of the English Department's multicultural "Voices
of the Rainbow" series, the reading will take place on Monday,
October 28, at 1 p.m. in the Health Sciences Building, Room 121,
and is free and open to the public.
Eady is the author of six books of poetry including "Victims
of the Latest Dance Craze," winner of the Lamont Prize from
the Academy of American Poets; "The Gathering of My Name,"
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and "Brutal Imagination,"
a National Book Award finalist. Earlier this year, a theatrical
adaptation of "Brutal Imagination" opened at the Vineyard
Theatre, where Eady is working under a playwriting fellowship.
A native of Rochester, New York, Eady has taught poetry at SUNY-Stony
Brook, City College of New York, Sarah Lawrence College, New York
University, The Writer's Voice, The 92nd St. Y, The College of
William and Mary and Sweet Briar College. With poet Toi Derricote,
he is co-founder of Cave Canem, a summer workshop/retreat for
African-American poets.
Eady is also the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature,
a John Simon Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a Lila
Wallace-Readers Digest Traveling Scholarship to Tougaloo College
in Mississippi, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio,
Italy, and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award.
"Running Man," a music theater piece co-written with
jazz musician Diedre Murray, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
in Drama and awarded the 1999 Obie for best musical score and
lead actor in a musical.
The "Voices of the Rainbow" series is funded by the
office of Provost Gale Stevens Haynes. For more information, call
(718) 488-1109.
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