Cornelius Eady will read from his most recent work followed by a discussion with Alice Quinn, executive director, Poetry Society of America, on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. in Wilson Hall Room 126.

Eady is the author of Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; the autobiography of a jukebox (1997); You Don't Miss Your Water (1995); The Gathering of My Name (1991), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; BOOM BOOM BOOM (1988); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985), which was chosen by Louise Glück, Charles Simic, and Philip Booth for the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Kartunes (1980).

Contact: Margaret Quigley, margaret.quigley@vanderbilt.edu


This event is part of The Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series sponsored by an endowment given to the university by Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt. The event is co-sponsored by the Bishop Johnson Black Cultural Center