Yusef Komunyakaa & Terrance Hayes—Dear Yusef

Name: Yusef Komunyakaa & Terrance Hayes—Dear Yusef
Start: 2025-02-05T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-05T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Labyrinth Books Princeton

Schedule

Wed Feb 05 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Labyrinth Books Princeton | Princeton, NJ

Readings by and a conversation between Yusef Komunyakaa and MacArthur Fellow and poet Terrance Hayes in celebration of Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa, an anthology dedicated to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Introductions by Princeton Arts Fellow and poet Nicole Sealey and award-winning poet John Murillo, editors of the anthology. Book signing and reception to follow.

Yusef Komunyakaa’s numerous books of poems include Thieves of Paradise, a finalist for the National Book Critics Award; Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize; and I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Komunyakaa’s prose is collected in Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews & Commentaries. His many honors include the William Faulkner Prize, the Hanes Poetry Prize, and fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award. His other poetry collections include So to Speak, How to Be Drawn, and Muscular Music. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. Hayes is a professor of creative writing at New York University.
John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. His numerous honors include the Four Quartets Prize, a pair of Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers, and Cave Canem Foundation. He is an associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Wesleyan University.
Nicole Sealey’s books include The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her honors include a 2023-2024 Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University.
This event is cosponsored by The Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.