Poetry Festival

Poetry Festival
You’re invited to Trinity’s 11th Annual Poetry Festival featuring poet Cornelius Eady. Mr. Eady is the author of several books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Hardheaded Weather, nominated for a NAACP Image Award; Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name, which was nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize; and his most recent collection, The War Against the Obvious. With poet Tori Derricote, Eady is co-founder of Cave Canem, a national organization for African-American poetry and poets. He is the recipient of a NEA Fellowship in Literature, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy, and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award.
A book of poems to be read at the festival is being produced. To have your submission published, email it by Thursday, May 9, to Chester Johnson at jchester.gfa@prodigy.net.
Sponsored by Trinity Congregational Arts/Lively Arts.