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Yusef Komunyakaa

Professor of the Council of the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts

Campus Address ............ Room 210, 185 Nassau Street
Office Hours ............ Tuesday, 11:00-1:00 and Wednesday 11:00-1:00
Campus Phone ............ (609) 258-4711


Awards & Publications
Poetry – Taboo: Wishbone Trilogy Part One (2004); Scandalize My Name (2002); Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, 1975-1999 (2001); Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000), finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award;  Thieves of Paradise (1999), finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award; The Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award; Poetry Magazine’s Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize,  Morton  Zabel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota Chapter, Harvard University; Poetry Magazine’s Levinson Prize, 1998; Southern Literary Association’s Hanes Poetry Prize, 1997; Neon Vernacular (1993), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award, Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry, William Faulkner Prize, 1994; Magic City (1992); Dien Cai Dau (1988); I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986); Copacetic (1984). Nonfiction – Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews and Commentaries (2000), NEA Fellowships in 1987 and 1981; Ruth Lily Prize for Poetry (2001).  A Chancellor, the Academy of American Poets.

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