A Celebration of Poet Cornelius Eady: Events at the Beinecke Library, February 21‐23, 2024

Cornelius Eady Trio Performance 4:00 pm Wednesday, February 21 Beinecke Mezzanine

Brutal Imagination: A Reading 5:00 pm Friday, February 23, 2024 Beinecke Mezzanine

READ about the events in the YaleNews: Visit by acclaimed poet invites engagement with an artist’s many dimensions | YaleNews

ABOUT Cornelius Eady

Cornelius Eady is the award-winning author of eight books of poetry as well as an opera libretto and numerous other works of music. He is also the co-founder, along with Toi Dericotte, of Cave Canem, an organization dedicated to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African-American poets. Eady has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1985. Eady is Professor of English and John C. Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tenn-Knoxville

This celebration is a collaboration of the Yale Public Humanities Program, the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, the Department of African American Studies, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, hosted in conjunction with the undergraduate class Approaches to Contemporary Biography at Beinecke Library.