March 27 — Poets Cornelius Eady and Mitchell L.H. Douglas
March 27, 2008 - Thursday
The IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, University Library, and University College present:
The 2007-08 Rufus and Louise Reiberg Reading Series
Poets Cornelius Eady and Mitchell L.H. Douglas
Cornelius Eady is the author of seven books of poetry, including You Don’t Miss Your Water (2007), Brutal Imagination (2001), a National Book Award finalist, and The Autobiography of a Jukebox (1997). His play Brutal Imagination won Newsday’s Oppenheimer Award in 2002. He directs the creative writing program at the University of Notre Dame. In 1996, with fellow poet Toi Derricote, Eady founded Cave Canem, a network of established and emerging black writers.
Mitchell L.H. Douglas, assistant professor of English at IUPUI, was a Cave Canem fellow in 2007. One of the founding members of the Affrilachian Poets, he is currently at work on a collection of poems about musician Donny Hathaway.
University Library, Lilly Auditorium
7:30 pm
Contact: Karen Kovacik, 317-274-9831
December 8th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
[…] March 27 — Poets Cornelius Eady and Mitchell L.H. Douglas. Cave Canem seeks to provide a safe haven for black poets—whether schooled in MFA programs or poetry slams—to come together to work on their craft and engage others in critical debate. Hear how it is going. check it out […]