Poetry Foundation (Venue Partner)
61 West Superior Street
312-787-7070
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Cornelius Eady
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Saturday Apr 24, 2010 (noon)
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Directions: Chicago stop on the Brown or Red Lines
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Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street
Many of Cornelius Eady’s poems allude to traditional African American hymns as well as to the compositions of modern musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. His published works include Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985), winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name (1991), nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and Brutal Imagination (2001), a National Book Award finalist. Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems appeared in 2008 and was nominated for a NAACP Image Award. In 1996 Eady and poet Toi Derricotte founded Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization that supports emerging African American poets. At present he is an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.
This event is co-sponsored with the Chicago Public Library.
