Podcasts about Cornelius Eady

This episode explores new research, which has found that carrion crows can spontaneously detect geometric regularity - like right angles and symmetry - just like humans. --- Read this episode's science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Crows in a Strong Wind' by Cornelius Eady here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth

On this West Virginia Morning, this month marked five years since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of public spaces across the United States. The Cornelius Eady Trio, a ban organized around Tennessee poet and professor Cornelius Eady, used that time to create art. The post Pandemic-Era Vinyl Gets Re-Released And Natural Gas Leader Talks Industry, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

Cornelius Eady is a Professor of English and John C. Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. From September 2021 to December 2022, he served as interim Director of Poets House in New York City. Eady published his first collection, Kartunes, in 1980. His second collection, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985), was chosen as winner of the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Poetry Award by Louise Glück, Charles Simic, and Philip Booth. He has published eight other collections, including The Gathering of My Name (1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Brutal Imagination (2001), a National Book Award finalist; and Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (2008), nominated for an NAACP Image Award. In addition to his poetry, Eady has written musical theater productions, collaborating with jazz composer Diedre Murray. The two worked together on Running Man, a roots opera libretto that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and Brutal Imagination, recipient of Newsday's Oppenheimer Award. Eady is also a musician, and he performs with the literary band Rough Magic and the Cornelius Eady Trio, which recently released the album Don't Get Dead: Pandemic Folk Songs. (June Appal Recording, 2021). Eady has published five mixed-media chapbooks with accompanying CDs, including Book of Hooks (Kattywompus Press, 2013), Singing While Black (Kattywompus Press, 2015) and All the American Poets Have Titled Their New Books The End (Kattywompus Press, (2018). With poet Toi Derricote, Eady founded Cave Canem, a beloved nonprofit organization that supports emerging Black poets via a summer retreat, regional workshops, prizes, events, and publication opportunities. In 2016, Eady and Derricote were honored with the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community on behalf of Cave Canem, and, in 2023, they won the Pegasus Award for service in the field of Poetry by the Poetry Foundation. Eady's other honors include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.Links:Bio and Poems at The Poetry FoundationBio and poems at Poets.org"Poet Cornelius Eady on exploring the everyday lives of Black people in America"--PBS News HourCornelius Eady Group website"Emmett Till's Glass Top Casket" at the Poetry Society of AmericaCave Canem

Cornelius Eady is a Professor of English and John C. Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. From September 2021 to December 2022, he served as interim Director of Poets House in New York City. Eady published his first collection, Kartunes, in 1980. His second collection, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985), was chosen as winner of the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Poetry Award by Louise Glück, Charles Simic, and Philip Booth. He has published eight other collections, including The Gathering of My Name (1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Brutal Imagination (2001), a National Book Award finalist; and Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (2008), nominated for an NAACP Image Award. In addition to his poetry, Eady has written musical theater productions, collaborating with jazz composer Diedre Murray. The two worked together on Running Man, a roots opera libretto that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and Brutal Imagination, recipient of Newsday's Oppenheimer Award. Eady is also a musician, and he performs with the literary band Rough Magic and the Cornelius Eady Trio, which recently released the album Don't Get Dead: Pandemic Folk Songs. (June Appal Recording, 2021). Eady has published five mixed-media chapbooks with accompanying CDs, including Book of Hooks (Kattywompus Press, 2013), Singing While Black (Kattywompus Press, 2015) and All the American Poets Have Titled Their New Books The End (Kattywompus Press, (2018). With poet Toi Derricote, Eady founded Cave Canem, a beloved nonprofit organization that supports emerging Black poets via a summer retreat, regional workshops, prizes, events, and publication opportunities. In 2016, Eady and Derricote were honored with the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community on behalf of Cave Canem, and, in 2023, they won the Pegasus Award for service in the field of Poetry by the Poetry Foundation. Eady's other honors include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.Links:Bio and Poems at The Poetry FoundationBio and poems at Poets.org"Poet Cornelius Eady on exploring the everyday lives of Black people in America"--PBS News HourCornelius Eady Group website"Emmett Till's Glass Top Casket" at the Poetry Society of AmericaCave Canem

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Recorded by Cornelius Eady for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on October 10, 2024. www.poets.org

Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet and playwright Cornelius Eady is in Cape Breton this week. He's doing a reading at the Inverness County Centre for the Arts on Wednesday afternoon. Guest host Jane Sponagle spoke with Eady about his work and what inspired him to hitchhike from New York to Cape Breton in the 1970s.

This week The Daily Poem heads to the movies.Cornelius Eady is the founder of the poetry group Cave Canem and his published collections include Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Omnation Press, 1986), winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie Mellon University Press,1991), nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Brutal Imagination (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001), a National Book Award finalist; and Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008). Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

The Painting (Acoustic) EP by Cornelius Eady Trio is a masterful collection that delves into themes of loss, justice, introspection, and belonging. Through soulful vocals, intricate guitar work, and evocative storytelling, the trio captures a range of emotions, offering a poignant reflection on the human condition. Each track is a testament to their artistry, leaving a lasting impression on listeners.Discover more here : https://corneliuseadytrio.com/home

The queens revisit some early, inspiring books of poetry that still slap! Come nerd out with us. If you'd like to support Breaking Form:Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Read Linda Gregg's "Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live"Read an interview with Wayne Koestenbaum, "Dirty Mind: An Interview with WK" which appeared in LA Review of Books Read "Boy at the Patterson Falls" from Toi Derricotte's Captivity.Listen to Susan Mitchell read "A Rainbow" -- the fun starts around 11:08. It includes her singing in German….Read Cathy Song's "Ikebana" from Picture Bride, which won the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets and was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.Listen to Cornelius Eady read some poems from Brutal Imagination (including "How I Got Born") and talk about Susan Smith here (forward to 23:50 mark). You can read the text of "How I Got Born" here (scroll down and click title to expand the whole poem). Eady turned the poems into a play of the same name; you can listen to Eady in conversation with Joe Morton about that process here (~47 min).

Thinking Cap Theatre's Artistic Director Nicole Stodard talks with celebrated director Stevie Walker-Webb about all things Fornes, including Stevie's direction of her adaptation of Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream at Baltimore Center Stage (May 4 - 21, 2023, https://www.centerstage.org). STEVIE WALKHER-WEBB'S BIO Stevie Walker-Webb is an Obie award winning Director, Playwright, and Cultural Worker who believes in the transformational power of art. He is the founder and Executive Director of HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS an arts and advocacy non-profit that makes visual the suffering and inhumane treatment of incarcerated mentally divergent people and the policies that adversely impact their lives. He is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theatre, The Lily Award in honor of Lorraine Hansberry awarded by the Dramatists Guild of America, a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop and a Wellspring Scholar. He's served as the Founding Artistic Director of the Jubilee Theatre in Waco, Texas and has created art and theatre in Madagascar, South Africa, Mexico, and across America. He's served as the Outreach Coordinator for Theatre of the Oppressed-NYC and holds an MFA from The New School, and a B.S. in Sociology from the University of North Texas. His work has been produced by: The Public Theater, American Civil Liberties Union, The New Group, Cherry Lane, Zara Aina, La Mama, Woolly Mammoth, Baltimore Center Stage, Lincoln Center, and Classic Stage.   Stevie is a regular professor and lecturer at NYU Tisch School of the arts where he teaches acting, ensemble work, and devised theatre. Currently he is a professor and Artist in Residence at Harvard University where he's teaching a series of courses aimed at “Decolonizing the Creative Process”. The Harvard lectures will culminate in a forthcoming book.Stevie has written and directed two films, We Got Out and the documentary Hundreds of Thousands.Notable Theatrical Productions: Ain't No Mo' written by Jordan E. Cooper at The Public Theater (2019), Associate Director for Shakespeare in the Park at The Public Theater Julius Caesar (2017) and Twelfth Night with Oskar Eustis and Shaina Taub (2018), One in Two by Donja Love at the Signature (2019), Black Odyssey by Marcus Gardley at Classic Stage (2023),   Stevie has served as a director for several Audible productions including, Wally Roux Phantom Mechanic written by Nick Carr and starring William Jackson Harper, Hop Tha A by James Anthony Tyler, and Brutal Imagination written by Cornelius Eady, starring Sally Murphy and Joe Morton.He's a contributing writer on The Ms. Pat Show a new breakout comedy streaming on BET+ and has been commissioned by The Mercury Store for a forthcoming play called Of Mercy And Madness. For more information about Stevie visit steviewalkerwebb.com Podcast Edited by Bree-Anna Obst. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-cap-theatre/support

ABOUT INSIDE THE BLACK BOX, SEASON 2 NOW STREAMING ON CRACKLEInside the Black Box, hosted by Emmy and NAACP Image Award winner Joe Morton and celebrity acting coach Tracey Moore, spotlights the greatest artists of color, from actors to producers to directors, writers and musicians, and allows them to reflect on how the color of their skin affected their journey to success. Season 2 continues the important conversations from last season with a new set of black artists, with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry. Talent featured in the second season includes Debbie Allen (Grey's Anatomy, Fame), Keith David (Nope, Armageddon), Jeffrey Wright (The Batman, Westworld), Malik Yoba (First Wives Club, Designated Survivor), Wendell Pierce (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, The Wire), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Billions, Castle), Rob Morgan (Stranger Things), and Naturi Naughton (Power, Queens).Here's the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbis3K1bbfsJOE MORTON BIOJOE MORTON is an Emmy® Award winner and recipient of multiple NAACP Image Awards for his role as Rowan/Eli Pope in Shonda Rhimes' critically acclaimed series SCANDAL. He was last seen in the FOX drama, OUR KIND OF PEOPLE, CBS's feel-good, Sunday night series, GOD FRIENDED ME, and Netflix's THE POLITICIAN. Morton recently expanded his TV presence as executive co-producer and co-host on INSIDE THE BLACK BOX, an interactive interview show, which explores the experiences of black artists within the world of entertainment, premiering its second season on CRACKLE, December 1st.In film, Morton is widely known as the mute alien in the title role of John Sayle's THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, and as the ill-fated scientist, Miles Dyson, in TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY. Other notable film credits include SPEED, OF MICE AND MEN, ALI, HBO's star-studded special BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, and as Cyborg's dad, Dr. Silas Stone, in BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN and Zack Snyder's Cut of JUSTICE LEAGUE.Morton debuted on Broadway in HAIR, and received a Tony nomination and Theatre World Award for his portrayal of Walter Lee Younger in RAISIN. For his Off-Broadway portrayal of comedian/civil-rights activist, Dick Gregory, in TURN ME LOOSE, Morton received the Lucille Lortel Award, the Off-Broadway Alliance Award, and the AUDELCO for Outstanding Lead Actor in a play. Morton is also the recipient of an Audie, the Audible Award, for his reading of Ta-Nehisi Coates' THE WATER DANCER.Morton also directs for both stage and screen. Most currently, he directed a Zoom production of Cornelius Eady's BRUTAL IMAGINATION for the Vineyard Theatre, a play about Susan Smith, the woman who drowned her children and accused a non-existent black man of kidnapping them. His TV directing credits include episodes of SCANDAL, GOD FRIENDED ME, BULL, and OUR KIND OF PEOPLE.Additionally, Morton released WAKE UP AMERICA (https://smarturl.it/wakeupamerica) in 2020, a song and lyric video that promotes unity and hope in a time of deep political and racial tribalism. He's also written music for feature films LIFELINES and BADLAND, and for SYFY'S EUREKA, and most recently co-composed music for INSIDE THE BLACK BOX.TRACEY MOORE BIOTracey Moore arrived in New York City in 1983 with two hundred dollars, a one-way ticket and a trunk from San Francisco, California to pursue a directing career on Broadway. One of her first jobs she created was a practical joke company for hire called "The Joke's On You!". Tracey wrote, directed and cast her unemployed actor friends in customized joke scenarios. After 4 years of playing jokes, Tracey was asked by a director to cast a music video. Being in a position to help actors get jobs moved her away from "The Jokes's On You" into a successful casting career in television, film and commercials for over 30 years.One of Tracey's first casting job was a show at MTV. The search was for comedians and during Tracey's scouting at comedy clubs, she discovered Dave Chappell. She cast Jon Stewart's first MTV show "You Wrote It, You Watch It" and found Lisa Gay Hamilton and Donald Faison. Tracey has had her hands on a plethora of actors including Jamie Hector, Michael K. Williams, Kerry Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Mike Epps, Adam Rodriguez, Naturi Naughton and many, many more.Since then she has become a renowned casting director for feature films such as Miramax's awarding winning, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., New Jersey Drive and A Brother's Kiss. As Extras Casting Director, Tracey cast for the popular FOX show New York Undercover and Spike Lee's "Girl 6". Her commercial credits include: Nike, Sprite, Coca-Cola, New York Times, Miller Lite, Pontiac, Taco Bell, Disney and PSA's Under the Influence.In her "spare" time, Tracey enjoys speaking to students at various colleges. She has lectured at Howard University, Long Island University, CW Post, Georgia State University and Loyola Marymount University. Tracey also teaches The Spirited Actor Workshop and she conducts private coaching sessions. Her clients are Cardi B, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot, Eve, Nelly, Q-Tip, Faith Evans, LaLa Anthony, Naturi Naughton, Olivia, Jennifer Williams, Drew Sidora, Russell Hornsby, Kellita Smith, Charlie Murphy, Chico DeBarge, Musiq Soulchild, Faith Evans, Common, Ludacris, Victoria Rowell, Mona Scott Young, Q- Tip, Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish) Lil' Wayne, Joumana Kidd, Salt N Pepa, Laura Izibor, Kenny Latimore, NBA's Ray Allen, Terrence and Rocsi of BET's 106th and Park, Fonsworth Bentley of BET's Lift Every Voice, Tiny, Estelle, Kem, NFL Thomas Q. Jones, Vanessa Simmons, Leslie Grace andThe Breakfast Club's Angela Yee.. In 2002, Tracey wrote her first book entitled "The Spirited Actor; Principles for a Successful Audition" to empower and encourage actors on their journey. Tracey made her music video directorial debut with an artist named Blac Dyemond, which featured a cameo of Samuel L. Jackson. She recently shot the music video "Heaven" for R & B singer/ Broadway star Badia Farha. Tracey directed interstitials for Nickelodeon's Black History Month, which won her the 2004 Parent Choice Silver Award. Tracey has directed the annual HBO / BET Screenplay Competition for the last twenty years for the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City.Tracey has received accolades from NABEFEME Television and Film Executive of the Year (2004), Delta Nu Sigma Rho Sorority Hattie McDaniel's Award (2004), and Honorary Mention for Best Short Film The Interview for Chicks with Flicks Film Festival (2003) Tracey has worked with ABC's Sade Baderwa's program "Get Reel With Your Dreams" where she teaches acting workshops for high school students.Tracey produced four films with New York Times Bestselling Author, Carl Weber; "The Man in 3B", "The Preacher's Son", "The Choir Director" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy"https://www.crackle.com/

The fathers of Michael Brown and Terence Crutcher, as well as George Floyd's uncle, reflect on the moment that forever altered their families' lives following the killing of their loved ones by police officers in the US. Poet and songwriter Cornelius Eady navigates sobering and moving first hand accounts of what it means to raise a black man in America today. He learns how three father figures have coped in the face of harrowing loss.

Today's poem is A Small Moment by Cornelius Eady.

World events including the war in Ukraine and our years of Covid 19 isolation have made for an unexpected and harsh reality. James Crews, author of 4 prize-winning collections of poetry and is the editor of the best-selling anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD - hopes to offer some lightness through poetry. In Crews' own words: "These poems retrained me to seek out and find connection at a time when so many of us have grown more isolated..." Following the success and momentum of his best-selling anthology "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" - poet James Crews' new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser, and Linda Hogan.

World events including the war in Ukraine and our years of Covid 19 isolation have made for an unexpected and harsh reality. James Crews, author of 4 prize-winning collections of poetry and is the editor of the best-selling anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD - hopes to offer some lightness through poetry. In Crews' own words: "These poems retrained me to seek out and find connection at a time when so many of us have grown more isolated..." Following the success and momentum of his best-selling anthology "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" - poet James Crews' new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser, and Linda Hogan.

World events including the war in Ukraine and our years of Covid 19 isolation have made for an unexpected and harsh reality. James Crews, author of 4 prize-winning collections of poetry and is the editor of the best-selling anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD - hopes to offer some lightness through poetry. In Crews' own words: "These poems retrained me to seek out and find connection at a time when so many of us have grown more isolated..." Following the success and momentum of his best-selling anthology "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" - poet James Crews' new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser, and Linda Hogan.

Welcoming Leo   Heidi and Ellen welcome the sign of Leo and the season of selfhood and identity. It's a time to allow yourself to be fully expressed and to let your heart lead the way. This is the moment of your unfolding, unfurling self. What do you want to share? What do you want to say? How do you want to say it? How can you offer your light, your warmth, and your gift? They talk about the amazing Leo septuagenarians, Helen Mirren, Mick Jagger, and Joan Halifax, with a special focus on the late, great Julia Child, who would have celebrated her 110th birthday this August (30:51). Heidi reads the poem A Small Moment by Cornelius Eady (44:08).  

by Cornelius Eady

James Crews is the author of 4 prize-winning collections of poetry. He is also the editor of the best-selling poetry anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD. His new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith, and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser and Linda Hogan.

Following the success and momentum of his best-selling anthology "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" - poet James Crews' new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser, and Linda Hogan. About the author: JAMES CREWS' work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun Magazine, Ploughshares, and The New Republic, as well as on former US poet laureate Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry newspaper column. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Writing & Literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is the author of four collections of award-winning poetry, including The Book of What Stays (Prairie Schooner Prize and Foreword Book of the Year Citation, 2011), Telling My Father (Cowles Prize, 2017), Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment. He is also the editor of several anthologies of poetry: Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection; and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope. He leads Mindfulness & Writing retreats online and throughout the country, and works as a creative coach with groups and individuals. He lives with his husband, Brad Peacock, in Shaftsbury, Vermont. To sign up for weekly poems and prompts, visit jamescrews.net. https://www.instagram.com/james.crews.poet/ https://www.instagram.com/storeypub/ https://www.facebook.com/crewspoet https://www.facebook.com/storeypublishing https://twitter.com/StoreyPub --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tntbsmedia/message

The National Book Critics Circle is presenting the Black poetry group "Cave Canem" with the inaugural Toni Morrison Achievement Award, saying "no institution has played such a definitive role in shaping the poetry of the 21st century." For our CANVAS series, Jeffrey Brown spoke with poet Cornelius Eady, who co-founded the group and continues to shape the landscape of American literature. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Recorded by Cornelius Eady for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 24, 2022. www.poets.org

This episode is a roundtable discussion between Brittany, Maurisa, and Ajanaee. We discuss the way that friendship has sustained us and been the catalyst for our growth as writers. We also highlight other literary friendships that inspire and guide our practices (i.e Pat Parker and Audre Lorde, Cornelius Eady and Toi Derricotte, Willie Kinard and AsiahMae, etc) and how valuable community is to the development of Black writers. Hosted by: Maurisa Li-A-Ping, Brittany Rogers and Ajanae Dawkins Produced by: Camile Mojica Transcription by: Victor Jackson

The Poetry Foundation editors write: “When major parts of our lives seem to change in a flash, we are reminded that poetry can help us to cope with new realities and to assess the unknowns ahead. When we are stepping out into uncharted terrain, alone or together, poetry can capture our emotions. It can share our vulnerabilities and scars, along with our strengths.”Today. we are sharing the first program of our new podcast co-produced with Chris Brandt -- “Poetry. What is it good for?” For this first episode, we explored the 20-year social and emotional after-tremors of the attack by Saudi Arabian terrorists on the United States through the powerful tool of poetry with J. Chester Johnson and Cornelius Eady. J. Chester Johnson is a poet, playwright, essayist, translator, speaker and teacher. He visited Bar Crawl Radio a couple of months ago to talk about his book – “Damaged Heritage” -- on the history and his family's connection with the 1919 Elaine, Arkansas Massacre, one of many human crimes against humanity in which U. S. White citizens killed over 100 U.S. Black citizens and then prosecuted the survivors for their act of murder. Though Cornelius Eady, an American poet, focuses on issues of race and society, his verse accomplishes a lot more as indicated in his deeply felt reactions to the 9/11 attack on this country. Cornelius is also a musician whose verse is performed as song by The Cornelius Eady Trio. His poetry is simple and accessible, centering on jazz and blues, family life, violence, and society from a racial and class-based POV. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode features Cornelius Eady's talk from a Portland Arts & Lectures event in 2002, hosted by Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon.

For our season finale, we're celebrating more Cave Canem poets to honor their 25th anniversary!! With performances by the poets Lyrae Van Clief-Stefan, Evie Shockley, Kevin Young, and Dawn Lundy Martin. Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. Cave Canem has grown from a gathering of 26 poets to become an influential movement with a renowned faculty, high-achieving national fellowship of over 400 and a workshop community of 900. Cave Canem enjoys over 20 local, regional and national cultural partnerships, among them City of Asylum. We're featuring several amazing (and exclusive) performances from City of Asylum's Cave Canem archive—We're celebrating more Cave Canem poets in celebration of their 25th anniversary!! With performances by the poets Lyrae Van Clief-StefanEvie Shockley, Kevin Young, and Dawn Lundy Martin. Check out cityofasylum.org for more information on Cave Canem's October anniversary show or our show notes at charlacultural.com for more information. We'll also get into prose poetry, heists involving money, what we're reading, and some thoughts on The African Queen for the road!

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight American poet and educator, Terrance Hayes. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. About his work, Cornelius Eady has said: "First you'll marvel at his skill, his near-perfect pitch, his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. Then you'll notice the grace, the tenderness, the unblinking truth-telling just beneath his lines, the open and generous way he takes in our world."He has received many honors and awards, including a Whiting Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, and three Best American Poetry selections, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation“George Floyd”“You can be a bother who dyeshis hair Dennis Rodman bluein the face of the man kneeling in bluein the face the music of his wrist-watch your mouth is little morethan a door being knockedout of the ring of fire aroundthe afternoon came evening's bellof the ball and chain around the neckof the unarmed brother ground downto gunpowder dirt can be inhaledlike a puff the magic bullet pointof transformation both kills and firesthe life of the party like it's 1999 bottlesof beer on the wall street peoplewho sleep in the streets do not sleepwithout counting yourself luckyrabbit's foot of the mountainlion do not sleep withoutmaking your bed of the riverboat gambling there will beno stormy weather on the waterbored to death any means of killingtime is on your side of the bedof the truck transporting Emmetttill the break of day Emmett tillthe river runs dry your facethe music of the spheresEmmett till the end of time”Support the show (https://getlit.org/donate/)

We're checking out Cave Canem in celebration of its 25th anniversary!! With performances by Nikki Giovanni, Colleen McElroy, Amiri Baraka, Angela Jackson, Toi Derricotte, and Tim Seibles. Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. Cave Canem has grown from a gathering of 26 poets to become an influential movement with a renowned faculty, high-achieving national fellowship of over 400 and a workshop community of 900. Cave Canem enjoys over 20 local, regional and national cultural partnerships, among them City of Asylum. We're featuring several amazing (and exclusive) performances from City of Asylum's Cave Canem archive—Nikki Giovanni, Colleen McElroy, Amiri Baraka, Angela Jackson, Toi Derricotte, and Tim Seibles. Check out cityofasylum.org for more information on Cave Canem's anniversary show or our show notes at charlacultural.com for more information. We'll also get into cultural spaces, the importance of crow intimacy, what we're reading, and some thoughts for the road!

Poet/songwriter Cornelius Eady, co-founder of CAVE CANEM.

Cornelius Eady on Sterling Brown’s South: his porch, banter, and barbershop.

Toi Derricotte joins Kevin Young to read “We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On,” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “I give in to an old desire.” Derricotte is a poet, memoirist, and co-founder, with Cornelius Eady, of the literary organization Cave Canem. Her honors include the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and the Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement; in 2020, she received the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal, for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.

Show Notes and Links to F. Douglas Brown's Work: Douglas Brown at Poets.org Douglas Brown's Website Reading at Writer's Resist 2020 Video-"Poetry and Discernment: An Ignatian Conversation with F. Douglas Brown"   Writers/Texts Mentioned and Allusions Referenced During the Episode:   Doug talks about growing up in San Francisco and being inspired the Bay Area literary and artistic scene, including the great Diane DiPrima, Bob Haas, and his own mother, an artist herself -at about 4:30   Doug talks about his father's outsized influence on him, through his father's charm, gregarious nature, and steadfastness-at about 8:00   Doug reads a poem, “Hard Uncles,” about his father, published in the Virginia Quarterly Review-at about 11:00   Doug describes reciting the above poem in his father's home state of Mississippi at a couple of readings and how special the events were, as well as how “connection” is so crucial in poetry, as demonstrated by poet great Sterling Brown-at about 15:40   Doug talks about his mother's big influence on him, including her artistic and creative nature-at about 17:40   Doug talks about the significance of his full name, passed down from his father, and of course, the iconic abolitionist, Frederick Douglass-at about 21:35   Doug talks about the genesis of his work based on Jacob Lawrence's panels of Frederick Douglass, as well as the role of ekphrasis and the “muse” in Doug's own work and study-at about 24:40   Doug shows some artistic renderings of Frederick Douglass and talks about how he views Douglass and how Douglass has influenced his own work-at about 29:00-33:00 (AROUND THIS TIME, THE AUDIO WOULD BE GREATLY ENHANCED BY BEING ABLE TO SEE THE VISUALS DOUG PUTS UP AND REFERENCES-THEY CAN BE FOUND AT ABOUT 32:50 ON THE YOUTUBE RECORDING HERE) Doug talks about Natasha Trethewey and his admiration for her work-at about 32:00   Doug reads his poem based on Jacob Lawrence's rendering of Frederick Douglass and his overseer: “Mr. Covey, Shall We Dance?”-at about 39:10   Doug talks about chill-inducing writers for him, including the dynamic and uber-talented Tongo Eisen-Martin, recently named San Francisco Poet Laureate, Ross Gay, Natasha Trethewey, Tracy K. Smith, Mahogany Browne, Doug's frequent collaborator, Geffrey Davis, Terrence Hayes, and Kimiko Hahn -at about 43:30   Doug talks about the powerhouse writing collective Cave Canem and its history, mission and accomplishments, including its inception in 1996, founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady-at about 47:00   Doug and Pete talk about the brilliant poets Jericho Brown and Amanda Gorman, who recently read at the Biden/Harris Inauguration, as well as Michael Cirelli's help in advancing youth poetry-at about 50:45   Doug talks about Zero to Three, his award-winning poetry collection-at about 53:20   Doug reads “Epistemology of Laundry” and discusses its themes, particularly of the father-son bond-at about 58:20   Doug talks about the Sandra Bland Reading Series, including its ethic of downplaying the artist and lifting up the art, as seen with Amanda Johnston, Jonterri Gadson, Jericho Brown, and Mahogany Browne and their organization, Black Poets Speak Out-at about 1:03:45   Doug talks about his job and vocation as a high school educator and how he is able to integrate his art into the classroom-at about 1:10:30   Doug talks about some favorite texts to teach in his classroom, including the contemporary "To the Notebook Kid" by Eve L. Ewing, and Ocean Vuong's “Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong”-at about 1:13:45   Doug talks about upcoming projects, including two essays coming out this spring, in the anthology Teaching Black and through the Langston Hughes Center-at about 1:18:00   Doug talks about his DJing and his music influences-at about 1:23:00   Doug talks about mixtapes and their importance in his current DJ crew, with their shared need for mourning lost loved ones, particularly by dedicating poems/music to parents-at about 1:24:30   Pete and Doug resist the “in my day” hip-hop attitude-at about 1:27:45   Pete shouts out the Dissect Podcast, an incredible analysis of one hip-hop album per season, through a “close read”-at about 1:29:35   Doug reads four sonnets that have been written recently, full of allusions and inspired by his DJ crew (sonnet is entitled “A DJ Spins the Blues”); he talks about the significance of the poem and how we honor our parents and their legends-at about 1:31:00

Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet by Cornelius Eady.

This year's program features readings by Evie Shockley and Steven Leyva, and local Cave Canem fellows: Saida Agostini Abdul Ali Teri Cross-DavisHayes DavisRaina FieldsLinda Susan JacksonBettina JuddAlan KingKateema LeeHermine Pinson Hosted by Reginald Harris from Poets House, New York City. Presented in partnership with CityLit Project. Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 2 Bridges Review, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, Vinyl, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish and author of The Understudy’s Handbook which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he is an assistant professor in the Klein Family School of Communications Design. Evie Shockley is a poet and scholar. Her most recent poetry collections are the new black (Wesleyan, 2011) and semiautomatic (Wesleyan, 2017); both won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the latter was a finalist for the Pulitzer and LA Times Book Prizes. She has received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Stephen Henderson Award, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Cave Canem. Shockley is Professor of English at Rutgers University. Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. Recorded On: Sunday, December 6, 2020

To view the poem, please see: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america To hear Cornelius Eady reading the poem and discussing it, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QezAVP_HiY For a foundational essay about Phillis Wheatley and her work, please see June Jordan's essay, "The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/68628/the-difficult-miracle-of-black-poetry-in-america)." For two examples of the way Wheatley has inspired other artists and writers, please see the work of Cornelius Eady and Honoree Fanonne Jeffers. Eady, "Diabolic (https://poets.org/poem/diabolic)" Eady, "To Phillis Wheatley's Mother (https://www.harvardreview.org/content/to-phillis-wheatleys-mother/)" Eady, Interview (https://barelysouthreview.com/interview-with-cornelius-eady-interview/) Jeffers, The Age of Phillis (https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/the-age-of-phillis-jeffers/)

In this episode, I talk about past, present and future makes, including the Seabright Swimmer from Friday Pattern Co.  I also share the cake recipe I've been baking nonstop, and a poem from Cornelius Eady.

In this episode, I talk about past, present and future makes, including the Seabright Swimmer from Friday Pattern Co.  I also share the cake recipe I’ve been baking nonstop, and a poem from Cornelius Eady. Thank you for your purchase of my recent sock design — Taking Back the River. 

Recorded by Cornelius Eady for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 15, 2020. www.poets.org

This episode features Cornelius Eady's talk from a Portland Arts & Lectures event in 2002, hosted by Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon.

Alison Hawthorne Deming introduces recordings of Diane Ackerman reading a love poem for an extraterrestrial (“Ode to the Alien”), Cornelius Eady choosing gratitude as a response to anger and racial discrimination (“Gratitude”), and N. Scott Momaday describing a memorable encounter with Georgia O’Keeffe (“Forms of the Earth at Abiquiu”). Deming also reads a new poem written during this time of quarantine and isolation, “Territory Drive,” originally published at Terrain.org.Listen to the full recordings of Ackerman, Eady, and Momaday reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Diane Ackerman (1985)Cornelius Eady (1991)N. Scott Momaday (1992)You can also find readings by Alison Hawthorne Deming on Voca, including her most recent, which was given as part of our Climate Change & Poetry series in 2017.

Cornelius Eady has published seven books of poetry, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, which won the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and Brutal Imagination, a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry. Running Man, a music-theatre piece Eady coauthored with jazz musician Diedre Murray, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama in 1999 and received Obie awards for best musical score and lead actor in a musical. Eady is also the co-founder of Cave Canem, an organization dedicated to the advancement of young African-American poets. In this episode of the GrottoPod, Cornelius talks with Cave Canem fellow and poet George Higgins in a wide-ranging conversation about improvisation, Cornelius’s new music project, the poet Sterling A. Brown, Jim Crow, recording in Elvis’s Memphis studio, Cave Canem, Rooted and Written and a photo shoot by the New York Times of the 32 black male writers of our time. 

Join us for the annual Cave Canem poetry reading featuring Kyle Dargan and local Cave Canem fellows.Hosted by Reginald Harris from Poets House, New York City.Kyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis, which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections, Honest Engine, Logorrhea Dementia, Bouquet of Hungers and The Listening–were all published by the University of Georgia Press. For his work, he has also received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Dargan has partnered with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and Library of Congress. He’s worked with and supports a number of youth writing organizations, such as 826DC, Writopia Lab, Young Writers Workshop and the Dodge Poetry high schools program. He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Assistant Director of creative writing at American University, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. Also hear from: Abdul Ali, Teri Cross, Alan King, Saida Agostini, Cedrick Tillman, Kateema Lee, Hayes Davis.Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.Presented in partnership with CityLit Project.

Join us for the annual Cave Canem poetry reading featuring Kyle Dargan and local Cave Canem fellows.Hosted by Reginald Harris from Poets House, New York City.Kyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis, which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections, Honest Engine, Logorrhea Dementia, Bouquet of Hungers and The Listening–were all published by the University of Georgia Press. For his work, he has also received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Dargan has partnered with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and Library of Congress. He’s worked with and supports a number of youth writing organizations, such as 826DC, Writopia Lab, Young Writers Workshop and the Dodge Poetry high schools program. He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Assistant Director of creative writing at American University, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. Also hear from: Abdul Ali, Teri Cross, Alan King, Saida Agostini, Cedrick Tillman, Kateema Lee, Hayes Davis.Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.Presented in partnership with CityLit Project.Recorded On: Sunday, December 1, 2019

Derrick Weston Brown holds an MFA in creative writing, from American University. He has studied poetry under Dr. Tony Medina at Howard University and Cornelius Eady at American University. He is a graduate of the Cave Canem and VONA Voices summer workshops. His work has appeared in such literary journals as The Little Patuxent Review, Colorlines, The This Mag, and Vinyl online. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012.    He worked as a bookseller andbook buyer for a bookstore which is operated by the nonprofit Teaching for Change. He was thefounder of The Nine on the Ninth, a critically acclaimed monthly poetry series that ran from 2005-2015 at the 14th & V street location of Busboys and Poets. He was the 2012-2013 Writer-In-Residence of the Howard County Poetry Literary Society, of Maryland. He is also a participating DC area author for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s Writers-in-Schools program. He’s performed at such esteemed venues as The Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe and the Bowery. He has lead workshops and performed at Georgetown University, George Washington University, Sweet Briar College and Chicago State. He has appeared on Al-Jazeera and NPR as well. In May of 2014 he was also the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant. He is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and resides in Mount Rainier, Maryland. His debut collection of poetry entitled, Wisdom Teeth, was released in April 2011 on Busboys and Poets Press/PM Press. His second collection of poetry, a chapbook entitled On All Fronts , was released along with two other poetry chapbooks in a bound series from Upper Rubber Boot Press entitled Floodgates Vol.5 , this March of 2019. You can follow him on social media on Facebook and on Instagram @theoriginalDerrickWestonBrown as well as his author website DerrickWestonBrown.com

In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview poet, playwright, musician, and professor Cornelius Eady. Music featured in this episode: "The Pickle King" by The Cornelius Eady Trio "Bree" by The Cornelius Eady Trio Cornelius Eady is the author of several books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Hardheaded Weather, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze,winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, The Gathering of My Name,which was nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, and his most recent collection The War Against the Obvious. With poet Toi Derricote, Eady is cofounder of Cave Canem, a national organization for African American poetry and poets. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy, and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award. You can find him at: https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/cornelius-eady/

I possess a curious mind that causes me to write in a wide variety of genres, about a wide variety of subjects. My non-fiction has appeared in AFAR Magazine, Border Crossing, Paste Magazine, Slow Travel Berlin, The Writer, and many other outlets, both online and in print. My first full-length poetry collection, The Scabbard of Her Throat, was selected by Cornelius Eady for publication in the Hilary Tham Capital Collection series of The Word Works. I have a second manuscript that I’m sending out to a select handful of publishers for consideration. I also served as editor for the anthology My Cruel Invention, published in 2015 by Meerkat Press. Poems I wrote have appeared in 2015 Poet’s Market, Barrow Street, Fourteen Hills, Oxford American, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. I translated several poems by German poets Ulrike Draesner and Joachim Ringelnatz, and a few appeared in Asymptote, Connotation Press, and National Poetry Review, and are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review. Other translations have been provided for a variety of German small business and consultants. There are a few works of short fiction making the rounds at several litmags but SHHHHH! — don’t tell my poems.

Toi Derricotte is an American poet and recently retired from her post at University of Pittsburgh where she taught writing. Toi won a 2012 Pen Award for Poetry and is the co-founder with Cornelius Eady of Cave Canem Foundation, a summer workshop for African-American poets. Naomi Edwards holds degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Pittsburgh. Her poetry has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Pittsburgh. Community Calendar:

Featuring the eloquent Anthony Moll twitter - @AnthonyWMoll tumblr - anthonymoll.tumblr.com other things referenced: "Communion" by Cornelius Eady - tinyurl.com/ojr4myg "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen - tinyurl.com/b98nqpd Eunoia by Christian Bök wiki - tinyurl.com/q98qeyt Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones - tinyurl.com/plx84my The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf - tinyurl.com/p4x7jga The Light Ekphrastic - tinyurl.com/q263ycv

Cornelius Eady is an award-winning writer who has published eight collections of poetry. His poems often center on jazz, family life, violence, and questions of race and class. He holds the Miller Chair in Poetry at the University of Missouri.

Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady were the sixteenth poets in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2011. Toi Derricotte has published four books of poems, most recently the award-winning collection, Tender. Her literary memoir, The Black Notebooks, won the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Cornelius Eady, a distinguished poet and playwright whose work is often evocative of blues and jazz, has been honored with fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Hardheaded Weather.

Charismatic poet Cornelius Eady uses deft paradoxes to meet the world's absurdities head-on. In a powerful reading of his own work, Eady recites like a jazz singer croons, emphasizing his poetry's hard-hitting content. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 7952]

Charismatic poet Cornelius Eady uses deft paradoxes to meet the world's absurdities head-on. In a powerful reading of his own work, Eady recites like a jazz singer croons, emphasizing his poetry's hard-hitting content. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 7952]

Charismatic poet Cornelius Eady uses deft paradoxes to meet the world's absurdities head-on. In a powerful reading of his own work, Eady recites like a jazz singer croons, emphasizing his poetry's hard-hitting content. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 7952]

Charismatic poet Cornelius Eady uses deft paradoxes to meet the world's absurdities head-on. In a powerful reading of his own work, Eady recites like a jazz singer croons, emphasizing his poetry's hard-hitting content. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 7952]

Cornelius Eady's poetry meets the world's absurdities head-on with his own deft paradoxes. His highly personal use of language never detracts from its hard-hitting content. Eady's seven books of poetry include The Autobiography of a Jukebox, and his latest, Brutal Imagination. He's won the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Prize and teaches creative writing at CCNY.

Cornelius Eady's poetry meets the world's absurdities head-on with his own deft paradoxes. His highly personal use of language never detracts from its hard-hitting content. Eady's seven books of poetry include The Autobiography of a Jukebox, and his latest, Brutal Imagination. He's won the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Prize and teaches creative writing at CCNY.