Wednesday, March 1, 2017 / 7:00 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
FREE
This year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence is internationally renowned poet Yusef Komunyakaa. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry, including
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (1994), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Komunyakaa's other works include
Warhorses (2008);
Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1 (2006);
Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999 (2001);
Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000); and
Thieves of Paradise (1998), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent collections of poetry include
The Chameleon Couch (2011),
Testimony: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (2013), and
Emperor of Water Clocks (2015). He is the author of
Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (2006), and, in collaboration with composer T.J. Anderson, the opera libretto
Slip Knot.
