Free poetry reading by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady

 Free poetry reading by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, March 29 at 6 p.m. Jones Room on Level 3 of the Woodruff Library at Emory University, 540 Asbury Cir., Atlanta, GA 30322.

**********************************

Each noted poets in his and her own right, Cornelius Eady and Toi Derricotte are co-founders of Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization fostering the talents of black poets.

*******************************

More info:

Toi Derricotte’s books of poetry include “Tender” (1997), winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize; and “Captivity” (1989). Her literary memoir, “The Black Notebooks” (1997), won the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her poems, often autobiographical, address racism, identity, sexual issues and violence.

Poet and playwright Cornelius Eady is the author of eight books of poetry, including “Hardheaded Weather” (2008); “Brutal Imagination” (2001), a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; and “The Gathering of My Name” (1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Eady frequently writes about race, family, and music, and his poems have a musical quality drawn from jazz and the blues.