Reading of his most recent work followed by a discussion with Alice Quinn, Executive Director, Poetry Society of America

Cornelius Eady was born and raised in Rochester, New York, in 1954. He attended Monroe Community College and Empire State College.

He 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 an entry 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).

Location: Wilson Hall 126 (Google map of this location)

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