Reading: Pultizer Prize-winning Poet, Yusef Komunyakaa November 13, 2008

This will take place in Blodgett House.

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa will read from his latest collection Warhorses (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008). Komunyakaa's honors span a lifetime, and include the William Faulkner Prize, the Thomas Forcade Award, and the Hanes Poetry Prize, among others. His collections include Dedications & Other Darkhorses (1977), Lost in the Bonewheel Factory (1979), I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986), Toys in a Field, (1986), Dien Cai Dau (1988), Magic City (1992), Neon Vernacular (1993), Thieves of Paradise (1998), Pleasure Dome (2001), Talking Dirty to the Gods (2001), Taboo (2004), and Gilgamesh (2006).