61. Rhodes: News Releases: Pulitzer Prize Winner Yusef Komunyakaa To Read At Rhodes Poetry Reading by yusef komunyakaa WHEN February 20th, at 730 pmWHERE McCallum Ballroom, Bryan Campus Life Center, (Memphis, Tenn http://www.rhodes.edu/Visitor/info/releases/2003-0121-yusef.shtml

Pulitzer Prize Winner Yusef Komunyakaa To Read at Rhodes February 11, 2003 Contact: Ginny Davis EVENT POSTPONED - STAY TUNED FOR NEW DATE (Memphis, Tenn.)- Celebrated American poet Yusef Komunyakaa will read from his works at Rhodes College. Komunyakaa last visited Rhodes in 2000. His reading will be free and open to the public. The Louisiana-born writer's Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 1977-1989 won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award from the Claremont Graduate School in California. Komunyakaa's recent book titles include Talking Dirty to the Gods Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). Komunyakaa was elected to serve as chancellor for the Academy of American Poets in 1999. Also in 1999, he was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan University Press, 2000). He has numerous additional honors.

62. Thelonious Monk - Jazz Poetry - Yusef Komunyakaa Elegy for Thelonious. by yusef komunyakaa. Elegy for Thelonious Damn the snow. photo©James Keyser;, yusef komunyakaa is currently a professor at Princeton. http://www.achilles.net/~howardm/elegy.shtml

Elegy for Thelonious by Yusef Komunyakaa Elegy for Thelonious Damn the snow. Its senseless beauty pours a hard light through the hemlock. Thelonious is dead. Winter drifts in the hourglass; notes pour from the brain cup. damn the alley cat wailing a muted dirge off Lenox Ave. Thelonious is dead. Tonight's a lazy rhapsody of shadows swaying to blue vertigo Black trees in the wind. Crepuscule with Nellie plays inside the bowed head. "Dig the Man Ray of piano!" O Satisfaction, hot fingers blur on those white rib keys. Coming on the Hudson. Monk's Dream. The ghost of bebop from 52nd Street, footprints in the snow. Damn February. Let's go to Minton's till daybreak. Lord, there's Thelonious wearing that old funky hat pulled down over his eyes. (from Copacetic Yusef Komunyakaa is currently a professor at Princeton. He has published several books of poetry: Copacetic I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (which won the San Francisco Book Center Award in 1986), Dien Cai Dau and Thieves of Paradise . He won the 1993 Pulitzer prize for poetry. He is also co-editor - with Sascha Feinstein - of The Jazz Poetry Anthology You can buy The Jazz Poetry Anthology here.

63. Heath Anthology Of American Literature 4/e Yusef Komunyakaa - Author Page yusef komunyakaa (b. 1947) Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, the oldest of five children,komunyakaa is the son of a carpenter and of a mother who bought a set of http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contempora

Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Access Author Profile Pages by: Table of Contents Authors by Name Authors by Year Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fourth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor Yusef Komunyakaa (b. Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, the oldest of five children, Komunyakaa is the son of a carpenter and of a mother who bought a set of encyclopedias for her children. When he was sixteen, he discovered James Baldwin’s essays and decided to become a writer. From 1965 to 1968, Komunyakaa served a tour of duty in Vietnam as an information specialist, editing a military newspaper called the Southern Cross. In Vietnam he won the Bronze Star. After military service, he enrolled at the University of Colorado (double major in English and sociology) and began writing poetry. Upon graduation in 1980, he studied further at both Colorado State University (where he received an M.A. in creative writing) and the University of California, Irvine (where he received an M.F.A.) and taught at various universities before moving to New Orleans. While teaching at the University of New Orleans, in 1985, he married Australian novelist Mandy Sayer. Only then, nearly twenty years after his Vietnam experiences, did Komunyakaa write his important war poems, published in 1988 as Dien Cai Dau.

64. Poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Winner, To Give Reading April 11 Release Immediate. (NOTE TO BROADCASTERS komunyakaa is pronounced kohmun-YAH-kuh.).Poet yusef komunyakaa, a Pulitzer Prize winner, will give reading. http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/1998/march/0327yusef.html

WRITER: JENNY BURMAN CONTACT: WINSTON BARCLAY 100 Old Public Library Iowa City IA 52242 (319) 384-0073; fax (319) 384-0024 e-mail:winston-barclay@uiowa.edu Release: Immediate (NOTE TO BROADCASTERS: Komunyakaa is pronounced: koh-mun-YAH-kuh.) Poet Yusef Komunyakaa, a Pulitzer Prize winner, will give reading IOWA CITY, Iowa Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa will read from his work at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 11 at Room 101 of the Becker Communication Studies Building on the University of Iowa campus. The reading, which is sponsored by the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is free and open to the public. Komunyakaa is known for a style that combines deeply personal images with seemingly effortless presentation. He also has gained a reputation as one of the finest writers in prose or poetry on the subject of the Vietnam war. In much of his work he creates complex images of his childhood in Louisiana as well as the jungles of Vietnam. Kirkland C. Jones writes of the poet's collection "Dien Cai Dau" (the title means "crazy" in Vietnamese and was used to refer to American soldiers): "Komunyakaa's Vietnam poems rank with the best on that subject. He focuses on the mental horrors of war the anguish shared by the soldiers, those left at home to keep watch, and other observers, participants, objectors, who are all part of the psychological terrain." The poems in "Dien Cai Dau" also explore issues of race and sex. Wayne Koestenbaum writes in the New York Times Books Review: "Komunyakaa writes sensitively about the difficulties of being a black American soldier fighting alongside white men and of American servicemen's sexual relations with Vietnamese women."

65. AustLit Agent Agent Details. komunyakaa, yusef (5 works by ) Born 29 Apr 1947Louisiana, United States of America (USA) Gender Male, Biography http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A()u

66. Yusef Komunyakaa, Visiting Writer, Georgia Perimeter College yusef komunyakaa, Visiting Writer, Georgia Perimeter College. Events. ClarkstonHumanities Department Events. Internet Resources on yusef komunyakaa. http://www.gpc.peachnet.edu/~clahuman/komunyakaa.html

Yusef Komunyakaa, Visiting Writer, Georgia Perimeter College Events For more information contact: Jack Riggs@ 404.728.9661 or jriggs@gpc.peachnet.edu Clarkston Humanities Department Events Internet Resources on Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa From the American Academy of Poets. Includes biography, poems, an audio reading by the poet, and links to other Internet sites. Yusef Komunyakaa Wins 2001 Ruth Lilly Prize from Poetry Magazine Review of Thieves of Paradise by Kevin Young, from Boston Review Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa on the Internet Yusef Komunyakaa Twenty-four poems, from the Internet Poetry Archive "Sloth" from Poetry Magazine Sweaty Air Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa. Five poems, from Nerve.com. "Venus of Willendorf" from Atlantic Online Clarkston Humanities Department Home

67. The Theraflu® Addict's Literary Journal Thanks By Yusef Rises by Ernest Hemingway » January 08, 2003. Thanks by yusef komunyakaa.Thanks for the tree between me a sniper's bullet. I don't http://www.alanapost.com/theraflu/archives/001952.html

68. April 23 - Yusef Komunyakaa - Www.ezboard.com Author, Comment. Dorothy D Mienko Town Poem Reader Posts 4321 (4/22/0255205 pm) Reply ezSupporter, April 23 yusef komunyakaa http://pub8.ezboard.com/fthecriticalpoetsmessageboarfrm16.showMessage?topicID=38

69. Talking Dirty To The Gods - Poetry By Yusef Komunyakaa : Review : Pif - December Talking Dirty to the Gods Poetry by yusef komunyakaa Reviewed byRachel Barenblat. Discover 'Talking Dirty to the Gods' Find out http://www.pifmagazine.com/2000/12/b_y_komun1.php3

editor's desk email submission guidelines books and reviews ... writers only get pif's newsletter enter your email address for free monthly newsletter search pif magazine support pif magazine help us continue to serve the arts and technology community online Click Here to Help The Best of Pif Off-line Order your copy today Pif Magazine ISSN: 1094-2726 Pif Magazine 1426 Harvard Ave. #451 Seattle, WA 98122-3813 PAST REVIEWS MORE REVIEWS Talking Dirty to the Gods Poetry by Yusef Komunyakaa Reviewed by Rachel Barenblat Talking Dirty to the Gods Yusef Komunyakaa Hardcover - $18.40 Published September 2000 Ten pages into Yusef Komunyakaa's Talking Dirty to the Gods , I hit the first poem that makes me sit up and pay attention. Ode to the Maggot Brother of the blowfly Over battlefields, In slabs of bad pork Go to the root of all things. Jesus Christ, you're merciless Behind the stone door of Caesar's tomb Or split trench in a field of ragweed. No degree or creed can outlaw you As you take every living thing apart. Little Master of earth, no one gets to heaven

70. Talking Dirty To The Gods - Poetry By Yusef Komunyakaa : Review : Pif - December Pif Magazine. Friday, February 7, 2003 607 am. Talking Dirty tothe Gods Poetry by yusef komunyakaa Reviewed by Rachel Barenblat. http://www.pifmagazine.com/2000/12/b_y_komun1.php3?printable=1

71. Boston Review: Outside The Blue Nile By Yusef Komunyakaa He says, Can you spare three cents? . yusef komunyakaa Copyright Boston Review,19932002. All rights reserved. Please do not reproduce without permission. http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR18.6/outsideblue.html

Outside the Blue Nile "Can you spare seven cents?" I drop two quarters into his paper cup, "Man, I can't take this. I don't want to get rich." I notice the 1st Cav. patch on his fatigue jacket. He smells like he slept in a field of mint. He says that he's Benedict the Moor. Of course, I've never heard of the fellow. Two days later, I spot him outside Cody's Bookstore fingering the pennies. He says, "I'm not begging today, brother. I'm just paying penance." He goes back to scrubbing the sidewalk with a wirebrush. stands there; she guards him at night while he sleeps under a crown of stars. I find what I'm looking for at the Berkeley Library. He was born in Sicily on the estate of Chevalier de Lanza at San Fratello, the son of African slaves. He sold the lumbering oxen he'd labored years to buy, gave the money to the poor, a Lenten vow. After the caves in the mountains near Palermo, he went to live in a rocky cell on Mount Pellegrino where the Duke of Medina-Coeli All the titles at his feet, Benedict the Moor rejected. He couldn't read or write, but recited biblical

72. TNR Online Satchmo USA By Yusef Komunyakaa Satchmo USA by yusef komunyakaa Only at TNR Online Post date 08.01.01,Dear Mr. Satchmo, I'm on the other side with Tiger Rag Way Down. http://www.tnr.com/online/komunyakaa.html

73. Yusef Komunyakaa: Blue Notes, University Of Michigan Press yusef komunyakaa. Blue Notes Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries. yusefkomunyakaa. Edited by Radiclani Clytus. 53/8 x 8. 176 pgs. 2000. http://www.press.umich.edu/titles/09651.html

Blue Notes Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries Yusef Komunyakaa Edited by Radiclani Clytus 5-3/8 x 8. 176 pgs. 2000. Cloth 0-472-09651-6 $44.50S Available Paper 0-472-06651-X $15.95T Available Praise for this title Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets. Blue Notes offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komunyakaa's writing on contemporary poetry and music. The book is arranged in four sections. The first gathers essays on the work of poets and blues and jazz musicians influential to Komunyakaa's work, from Langston Hughes and Etheridge Knight to Ma Rainey and Thelonious Monk; the second collects a gallery of Komunyakaa's poems and the poet's commentary about each of them. The third selects interviews that reveal the development of the poet's aesthetic sensibility. The final section consists of four artistic explorations that reflect the poet's current interests. Two of of these texts, "Tenebrae" and "Buddy's Monologue," have been recently performed. As editor Radiclani Clytus makes clear in the volume's introductory essay, although Komunyakaa's poetry has its roots in the stylistic innovations of early twentieth-century American modernists, his writing often reflects his understanding that a "black" experience should not particularize the presentation of one's art. This volume, according to the editor, is an attempt to understand Komunyakaa's critical eclecticism within the context of his own words.

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75. Yusef Komunyakaa ,Interviews, comments and works by African American poet, yusef komunyakaa....... Datestamp, 200302-07. Dublin Core Metadata. Title, yusef komunyakaa. http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/getrecord/oai_dc/oai:ibiblio:www.ibiblio.org/ipa/

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76. Yusef Komunyakaa | Meditations In A Swine Yard YUSE F komunyakaa A god isn't worth the salt In our bread if we can'tStamp our feet shake balled fist At eaters of the brightest insects. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v4/i1/g/komunyakka3.html

text mode m e d i t a t i o n s i n a s w i n e y a r d Y U S E F K O M U N Y A K A A On their first day here. Sometimes we must tug him out Into the hog's bloody mud. His beauty is our blue Derision, like a child banging Her ragdoll against the floor, Calling for Daddy. A god isn't worth A drop of water in the hell of his good published in association with the university of pennsylvania kelly writers house

77. Yusef Komunyakaa | Curanderismo curanderismo YUSE F komunyakaa Dear, I roll this duck egg Over your breaststo steal The poison, old troubles, lamentation. The angry cells. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v4/i1/g/komunyakka2.html

text mode c u r a n d e r i s m o Y U S E F K O M U N Y A K A A published in association with the university of pennsylvania kelly writers house

78. Washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Books & Reading A Poem by yusef komunyakaa, Woebegone from Thieves of Paradise, 1990 by yusefkomunyakaa is reprinted with permission of Wesleyan University Press. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/features/19980830.htm

A Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa By Robert Hass August 30, 1998 Y usef Komunyakaa, born in Bogalusa, La., currently a professor at Princeton University, served in Vietnam where he was a reporter for Stars and Stripes. He wrote what is probably the best book of poems by an American about the Vietnam War, Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan University Press), and subsequently received the Pulitzer Prize for his selected poems, Neon Vernacular (also Wesleyan). His newest book is as strong as the best of his earlier work and it has immense range. The poem that caught my eye begins as an observation about style among the young in the '90s. : Woebegone We pierce tongue on gutstring. Gold bead through. We kiss like tiny branding irons. Loved ones guard words nighttime. Beneath bruised glamor, we say, "I'll show

79. From Autobiography Of My Alter Ego By Yusef Komunyakaa from Autobiography of My Alter Ego By yusef komunyakaa Posted Wednesday, June 28,2000, at 1200 AM PT yusef komunyakaa is a professor at Princeton University. http://slate.msn.com/id/83307/

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Search ... Money document.write('') Search the Web: powered by MSN Search Print E-mail Discuss Alerts ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search poem A weekly poem, read by the author. from Autobiography of My Alter Ego By Yusef Komunyakaa Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2000, at 12:00 AM PT I hitchhiked a year with Bullet, my impish gray mutt. She was the only one who didn't come to me as a stranger, wagging her tail as if I'd gone around the block for an hour. I left my mother waving in the doorway, my father drunk in the den. With guitar fields, beneath trestles in one-horse towns, flophouses in my wild hair. I thumbed the pages of dog-eared Articles of War , a ghost of Nam still in the clothes I wore. I was thankful

80. Bonsai, Golden Lotus By Yusef Komunyakaa Bonsai, Golden Lotus By yusef komunyakaa Posted Wednesday, January 5, 2000,at 1230 AM PT yusef komunyakaa is a professor at Princeton University. http://slate.msn.com/id/68122/

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Search ... Money document.write('') Search the Web: powered by MSN Search Print E-mail Discuss Alerts ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search poem A weekly poem, read by the author. Bonsai, Golden Lotus By Yusef Komunyakaa Posted Wednesday, January 5, 2000, at 12:30 AM PT Grafted to composure, a courtesan Stuns into a fierce singing Snipped to mourning twigs Cut from one musical limb This root-bound unblooming The bottom of chance. The trees stop Limping when someone chops down a grove To make an idea live, stealing breath From a lotus raised out of a half sleep, A shiver goes through hand-painted silk. Stunted into green pleas, the whimper Yusef Komunyakaa is a professor at Princeton University. He has published 11 books of poetry, including, most recently, Thieves of Paradise More poem "Two Poems" posted March 18, 2003 Michalle Gould "As Close as Breathing" posted March 11, 2003 Mark Jarman "Trampoline" posted March 4, 2003 Joshua Weiner "February 26" posted February 25, 2003 David Lehman "Hate Hotel" posted February 18, 2003

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