Cornelius Eady is the author of six books of poetry. Among the many prizes he has won, he has received a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. His 1991 collection of poetry, The Gathering of My Name, was a 1992 Pulitzer Prize nominee. He is co-founder, along with poet Toi Derricote, of Cave Canem, a summer workshop/retreat for African-American poets. He is currently director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book of poetry, Brutal Imagination, was published in 2001.

His work appeared in the Indiana Review in Volume 24.1, which featured two poems: “Manchild” and “The Later Songs of Billy Holiday.”

Cornelius Eady at Poets.org

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