Yusef Komunyakaa (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of...
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American poet and author Yusef Komunyakaa. It is a reflection on Komunyakaa's first visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Komunyakaa served in Vietnam and...
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James Wright, Jean Valentine, Stanley Kunitz, Heather McHugh, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Notable nature and environment authors published include William Sargent...
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is the first poem in the 2015 book The Emperor of Water Clocks by Yusef Komunyakaa, an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994. "The...
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"Interview with Paul Muldoon." Thumbscrew 4 Spring 1996. Sherman, Susan. "Yusef Komunyakaa and Paul Muldoon [Interview]." Bomb 65 Fall 1998. Wills, Clair. Reading...
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Native American to go to space, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2002 Yusef Komunyakaa (B.A. 1975) - first African-American to win Pulitzer Prize for poetry...
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Literary Magazine Award. Past contributors include: Denise Duhamel, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stuart Dybek, Sherman Alexie, Gary Soto, Philip Levine, Peter Selgin...
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Ruadh Chorùna Michael Casey W. D. Ehrhart Richard Wilbur Rob Jacques Yusef Komunyakaa Bruce Weigl Caitlín Maude Brian Turner Erika Renee Land Edited by Natasha...
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2022-02-03. Retrieved 2022-02-09. "DIRTY BIRD BLUES by Clarence Major Yusef Komunyakaa Fore John Beckman Intro Read by Dion Graham | Audiobook Review". AudioFile...
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Richard A. Johnson, American artist Richard Katrovas, American writer Yusef Komunyakaa, American poet Joseph Logsdon, American historian Andreas Maislinger...
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Johnson, Grambling and professional football player; born in Bogalusa Yusef Komunyakaa (born in 1947 in Bogalusa), winner of 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;...
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Gold, Jay Gummerman, Gerald Haslam, James D. Houston, Diane Johnson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Peter Matthiessen, David Perlman, Alice...
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Terrance Hayes "Sugar" by Khalil Gibran Muhammad "First to Rise", poem by Yusef Komunyakaa "proof [dear Phillis]", poem by Eve L. Ewing "Fear" by Leslie Alexander...
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Brooke Shields Michael Johnson, country and folk singer-songwriter Yusef Komunyakaa (MA '81), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Susan Lowdermilk, artist, printmaker...
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writing. The work of Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Rita Dove also became significant influences. Smith received her...
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award-winning poets, including Seamus Heaney, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Wislawa Szymborska, Charles Simic, W.S. Merwin, and...
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of the Goat Theatre in Poland. 2007 (April). Gilgamesh, adapted by Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia. Original music composed and performed by Billy Atwell...
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Lautreamont Finalist James Merrill Selected Poems 1946-1985 Finalist 1994 Yusef Komunyakaa Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems Winner Brenda Hillman Bright...
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Paz, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, W. S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, Yusef Komunyakaa, James Merrill, Frank Bidart, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Hayden...
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the upcoming Jupiter Invincible with Pulitzer Prize winning author Yusef Komunyakaa which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival June 2021 and Wonder Woman...
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chancellors, including African-American poets Lucille Clifton and Yusef Komunyakaa. Elizabeth Kray was hired in 1963 as the first executive director of...
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in his work. His opera Wakonda's Dream (2007), with a libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa, is a tale of a contemporary Native American Ponca family in Nebraska...
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ha Jin, Jamaica Kincaid, Barbara Kingsolver, Yusef Komunyakaa, Hanif Kureishi, Marjorie Sandor, John Edgar Wideman, and others. In...
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Book of the Year. In 1985 in New Orleans during Mardi Gras she met Yusef Komunyakaa, an African-American war poet (later to win a Pulitzer Prize). They...
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efforts of such poets as Dave Smith, Charles Wright, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jim Seay, Frank Stanford, Kate Daniels, James Applewhite, Betty Adcock...
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Istanbul". Tablet Hotels. "The Best American Poetry 2003, Guest Edited by Yusef Komunyakaa". www.bestamericanpoetry.com. Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at Sultanahmet...
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newly augmented board of the Academy of American Poets, along with Yusef Komunyakaa, Lucille Clifton, Jay Wright (who declined the honor), Louise Glück...
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collection of original poems and stories Clint Smith on the Middle Passage Yusef Komunyakaa on Crispus Attucks Eve L. Ewing on Phillis Wheatley Reginald Dwayne...
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English-language opera composed by American Anthony Davis with a libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa. It premiered March 7, 2007 at Omaha, Nebraska's Orpheum. It is about...
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