Acclaimed poet Cornelius Eady will give a performance of his writing on Tuesday, March 18th, as the second event in the Clayton B. Ofstad Readings Series. The reading is at 7:30 PM at the University Art Gallery, Ophelia Parrish Hall.
Eady is a Pulitzer Prize Nominee, National Book Award Finalist & Co-Founder of the Cave Canem Foundation; he currently holds the Miller Chair in poetry at the University of Missouri. He has published many volumes of poetry, including The Autobiography of a Jukebox, You Don’t Miss Your Water, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, Brutal Imagination, and Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems.
Funding for this event is generously provided by The Clayton B. Ofstad Endowed Chair in English, the first-ever endowed faculty chair at Truman State University. Additional funding for this event is provided by Multicultural Affairs Center.
Copies of the author’s books are currently available at the Truman Bookstore and will be on sale at the reading event, which is free and open to the public. Refreshments (including three kinds of pie!) will be served. For more information on Cornelius Eady and his work, please go to:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/cornelius-eady
http://www.blueflowerarts.com/booking/cornelius-eady
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/56
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