Yusef Komunyakaa is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet for his collection of poems Neon Vernacular, published in 1993. He has won numerous other awards, including the William Faulkner Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Bronze Star for his service in the Vietnam War. He formerly taught creative writing at Princeton, and will be moving to New York University in 2006. His most recent collection of poems was published in 2004 and is titled Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1.

In Volume 10.1/2, the Indiana Review published eleven of Mr. Komunyakaa’s poems, collected under the title Fragging. He next appeared in the magazine in Volume 19.1, with a non-fiction essay titled “Masks.”

Yusef Komunyakaa at Modern American Poetry
Yusef Komunyakaa at Poets.org

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