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	Bio Sketches Yusef Komunyakaa
		Komunyakaa's poetry is celebrated for its short lines, its simple vernacular, its jazzy feel, and its rootedness in the poet's experience as a fl of the American South, and as a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War.
		Komunyakaa's most recent collection is Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000), and his earlier collections include Thieves of Paradise (1998), University Press of New England), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Neon Vernacular (1993), which received the Pulitzer Prize, Magic City (1992) and Dien Cai Dau (1988).
		In 1999, Yusef Komunyakaa was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, In addition to his many publications and poetry collections, he is co-editor (with Sascha Feinstein) of two volumes of "The Jazz Poetry Anthology" from Indiana University Press.
	www.nathanielturner.com /biosketchesyusefkomunyakaa.htm (508 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Yusef Komunyakaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Komunyakaa's poetry is celebrated for its short lines, its simple vernacular language, its jazzy feel, and its rootedness in the poet's experience as a Black child of the American South, and as a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War.
		Yusef Komunyakaa currently teaches at Princeton, where he is a professor in the Council of Humanities and the Creative Writing Program.
		"Yusef Komunyakaa is a poet of the human heart in all its joys and horrors, fiercely present as it pounds away at the center of every human being's consciousness.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/komunyakaayusef.html (317 words)

	Interview: Yusef Komunyakaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yusef Komunyakaa is professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University.
		KOMUNYAKAA: I think the music is important, the language inside the music, I think the images, the metaphors, the overall style that pulls us into the poem tells us, we can trust it, and it is the music of trust that endures.
		KOMUNYAKAA: That's a good question because I do think that poetry from the United States, at this moment, is probably the most engaging, the most important and yet there are those isolated individuals writing in other parts of the world who are important.
	www.rattle.com /rattle9/Interview.htm (4871 words)

	Indiana University Writers' Conference
		Komunyakaa did not begin seriously to develop his creative writing talent until after a tour of duty in Vietnam while at a workshop at the University of Colorado, where he discovered his abilities as a poet and launched his prolific writing career.
		Komunyakaa's poetry is derived from his childhood, from his love of jazz and blues music, from the Vietnam War, from his travels abroad, and from everyday occurences.
		Komunyakaa believes that poetry is a search for confrontation within oneself as well as a celebration of the otherwise ordinary events and objects that shape our daily lives.
	www.indiana.edu /~writecon/komunyakaa.html (415 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal
		Born in 1947, Komunyakaa grew to revere the radio, and it became a shrine for him: he would listen to Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, and Mahalia Jackson and feel a connection to something larger than the rituals of sports and hunting in his own rural town.
		Komunyakaa left Bogalusa briefly for Phoenix and then Puerto Rico, but within a couple of years, after basic training and Infantry OCS, he was on an airplaine to Vietnam, where he served as an information specialist and later an editor for the military newspaper The Southern Cross.
		Komunyakaa is not choosy about when he lets his muse descend; he often has enough subject matter to work on three collections simultaneously.
	www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmArticleid=4251 (1599 words)

	Komunyakaa, Yusef Criticism and Essays
		Komunyakaa attended the University of Colorado, graduating with a B.A. in 1975, and began writing poetry and publishing in small presses.
		Komunyakaa followed Dien cai dau with February in Sydney (1989) and Magic City (1992)—the latter a highly autobiographical examination of childhood and rites of passage.
		Komunyakaa's reputation as a poet has grown steadily over the years, with original charges of obscurity or superficial treatment of subjects and themes giving way to praise for both surrealistic juxtaposition of images and compelling storytelling.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/komunyakaa-yusef (482 words)

	NJPoets.com - Skylands Writers & Artists Assoc., Inc. - Yusef Komunyakaa
		A resident poet of New Jersey, Yusef Komunyakaa was born on the 29th of April, 1947, in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
		Komunyakaa went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts at the University of California at Irvine in 1980, and, in the same year, joined the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center where he met a community of artists.
		Komunyakaa’s poetry highlighted his childhood experiences, utilizing the folk idioms of jazz and blues, to soothe the pain of his Southern peoples.
	www3.nji.com /swaa/komunyakaa.html (1273 words)

	NJPoets.com - Skylands Writers & Artists Assoc., Inc. - Yusef Komunyakaa
		A resident poet of New Jersey, Yusef Komunyakaa was born on the 29th of April, 1947, in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
		Komunyakaa went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts at the University of California at Irvine in 1980, and, in the same year, joined the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center where he met a community of artists.
		Komunyakaa’s poetry highlighted his childhood experiences, utilizing the folk idioms of jazz and blues, to soothe the pain of his Southern peoples.
	members.lsa.net /swaa/komunyakaa.html (1273 words)

	Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows: Yusef Komunyakaa (UC Irvine Libraries)
		Yusef Komunyakaa (with Sharon Olds), Audiotape Archives, The Academy of American Poets, 1999.
		Composed by Elliot Goldenthal, with Komunyakaa's "You and I Are Disappearing," and "Boat People" incorporated in the text.
		"Yusef Komunyakaa and Judale Carr," Zip-Zap E-Zine, Issue no. 3, 1996/97 URL: http://www.dnai.com/~zipzap/zissue3/april/sydney.html Six Komunyakaa poems ("February in Sydney," "Birds on a Powerline," "When in Rome - Apologia," "When Loneliness Is A Man," "Salt," and "The Plea") paired with paintings by Judale Carr.
	www.lib.uci.edu /online/fellows/komunbib.html (909 words)

	Princeton - PWB 020998 - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet teaches in Creative Writing program
		Komunyakaa writes what the New York Times has called "fiercely autobiographical" poetry, much of it based on his childhood in the rural South and on his young manhood in Vietnam.
		But the biggest influence on Komunyakaa's poetry and his life was the lush semitropical landscape around his house, where he ran free as a child.
		Komunyakaa got out of Bogalusa the way young men have fled the countryside since Homer's time: he joined the Army.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/pwb/98/0209/0209-1b.html (942 words)

	Yusef Komunyakaa - Millennium 2000 Feature - The Cortland Review
		An interview with Yusef Komunyakaa by David Lehman and a reading of some of his finest poems, all in RealAudio.
		Yusef Komunyakaa was interviewed by David Lehman at New School University on November 10, 1999, following his poetry reading.
		Special thanks to: David Lehman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert Polito, Zoe Anglesey, and everyone at New School University for participating in the broadcast of this event.
	www.cortlandreview.com /features/millennium/index.html (292 words)

	Amazon.ca: Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems: Books: Yusef Komunyakaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Komunyakaa's bodily frankness, his appealingly clipped rhythms and his darting intelligence all remain on display in his 11th book of poetry, a serious but always entertaining tour de force.
		The star of most poems, though, is Komunyakaa as commentator, bringing his off-kilter attitudes and his considerable experience to bear wherever his focus falls.
		Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau; Thieves of Paradise), who teaches at Princeton, garnered a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 with Neon Vernacular; since then he's managed to stay both hip and difficult, oblique in his meanings and populist in his sounds.
	www.amazon.ca /Talking-Dirty-Gods-Yusef-Komunyakaa/dp/0374527938 (840 words)

	A Magic City: The Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa - Associated Content
		I met Yusef Komunyakaa in April of 1996 but it wasn't until I sat down to write this review that I realized exactly who Komunyakaa is. Yusef Komunyakka was the recipient of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
		And that is what Komunyakaa's Magic City is about: memories of events from childhood that surface later in life and reveal their importance.
		Komunyakaa has a very skillful ability: to set an image exactly how it should be seen out in words that don't get lost as the reader comprehends them.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/43118/a_magic_city_the_poetry_of_yusef_komunyakaa.html (585 words)

	NYU > Office of Public Affairs > Poet Yusef Komunyakaa to Join NYU As Distinguished Senior Poet
		Komunyakaa is currently a professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
		Komunyakaa was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1947.
		After graduating from Bogalusa’s Central High School in 1965, Komunyakaa enlisted in the United States Army and served a tour of duty in Vietnam, where he was a correspondent and editor of the military newspaper, The Southern Cross.
	www.nyu.edu /public.affairs/releases/detail/786 (591 words)

	UPNE - Pleasure Dome: Yusef Komunyakaa
		Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets.
		Komunyakaa was the recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award, given by the Poetry Society of America.
		YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is Professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-8195-6425-7.html (197 words)

	Talking Dirty to the Gods - Poetry by Yusef Komunyakaa : Review : Pif - December 2000
		Komunyakaa's not pulling punches; he mixes the sacred and the profane with a fearless hand.
		In this paradigm the maggot is sibling to the godhead, the putrescence that it engenders is a symbol of order, and our ultimate fate of corporeal dissolution is the purest ontological truth.
		The line between death and religion, Komunyakaa seems to be saying, is blurry - and the transformation from life to physical ruin is as close as we get to resurrection.
	www.pifmagazine.com /2000/12/b_y_komun1.php3 (298 words)

	Yusef Komunyakaa Summary
		Yusef Komunyakaa began publishing his poetry during the turbulent 1960s, a period that included what has been called the Second New Negro Movement, suggesting the fervor that characterized the Harlem Renaissance.
		Yusef Komunyakaa(1947-) is an eminent American poet who currently teaches at New York University.
		Komunyakaa is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
	www.bookrags.com /Yusef_Komunyakaa (211 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yusef Komunyakaa is an African-American poet who was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana on April 29, 1947.
		Komunyakaa’s two major themes are the Vietnam War and jazz music.
		Komunyakaa has several degrees: B.A. from the University of Colorado (1975), M.A. from Colorado State University (1978) and M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine (1980).
	www.angelfire.com /sc/215CkRlGh414 (197 words)

	ReadWriteThink: April 29, 2006: Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
		ReadWriteThink: April 29, 2006: Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
		Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry can be used in many ways in the classroom.
		If your students enjoy Komunyakaa’s poetry about Vietnam, they might really take to this collection of short stories that take place before, during, and after the Vietnam War and are told from many perspectives.
	www.readwritethink.org /calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=484 (566 words)

	Yusef Komunyakaa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Komunyakaa is a recipient of the the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (for Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems), the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (also for Neon Vernacular), and the 2001 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
		His success continued with "I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head", but his true breakthrough moment came with the publication of "Dien Cai Dau" -- pronounced "dinky dow", which means "crazy" in Vietnamese -- which focused on his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam.
		In 2004, Komunyakaa began a collaboration with dramaturg and theater producer Chad Gracia on a dramatic adaptation of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yusef_Komunyakaa (529 words)

	African American Registry: Yusef Komunyakaa, a man of many words . . .
		African American Registry: Yusef Komunyakaa, a man of many words.
		The birth of Yusef* Komunyakaa in 1947 is celebrated on this date.
		Komunyakaa's prose is collected in Blues Notes: Essays, Interviews & Commentaries (University of Michigan Press, 2000).
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2728/Yusef_Komunyakaa_a_man_of_many_words___ (94 words)

	UT Library News: Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Yusef Komunyakaa at Writers in the Library
		Yusef Komunyakaa will read at Writers in the Library on Monday, November 6 at 7 p.m.
		Komunyakaa's poetry collections also include Copacetic (1984), I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986), Dien Cai Dau (1988), and Magic City (1992), and he was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for Thieves of Paradise (1998).
		In 1999 Komunyakaa was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and his many other commendations include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University, the Thomas Forcade Award, the William Faulkner Prize from the University of Rennes, the Dark Room Poetry Prize, Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize, and the Hanes Poetry Prize.
	www.lib.utk.edu /news/archives/writers_in_the_library/001456.html (508 words)

	Yusef Komunyakaa: Blue Notes, University of Michigan Press
		As editor Radiclani Clytus makes clear in the volume's introductory essay, although Komunyakaa's poetry has its roots in the stylistic innovations of early twentieth-century American modernists, his writing often reflects his understanding that a "fl" experience should not particularize the presentation of one's art.
		This volume, according to the editor, is an attempt to understand Komunyakaa's critical eclecticism within the context of his own words.
		Yusef Komunyakaa's books of poetry include I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, Magic City, Thieves of Paradise, and Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 1994.
	www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=11196 (245 words)

	Yusef Komunyakaa, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Will Host the Annual Macknight Poetry Reading at Lafayette
		Komunyakaa, who served as guest judge for the competition, will follow with readings from his own works.
		Komunyakaa was born in Bogalusa, La., in 1947.
		Komunyakaa, a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, earned a Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam where he served as a correspondent and editor for The Southern Cross, a military newspaper.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/658 (486 words)

	yusef komunyakaa
		Yusef Komunyakaa won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his book Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems.
		Komunyakaa is also a recent recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry.
		A more in depth biography and list of Komunyakaa's work can be found at Ibiblio.org.
	www.roanoke.edu /roanokereview/visiting3.html (58 words)

	komunyakaa Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Though the dramatis personae are diverse, the form of the poems--always four unrhymed quatrains--provides an even grid to support the diverse references and subject matter.
		Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa delivers a powerful meditation on American, and particularly African American, life in the wake of Vietnam.
		Drawing on multiple traditions, Komunyakaa's poetry is potent, live, and, like the strains of jazz running...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/komunyakaa (685 words)

	Amazon.com: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry): Books: Yusef Komunyakaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Simply put, Yusef Komunyakaa is the one living writer I most want to meet with and talk poetry.
		Komunyakaa and his work were both unknown quantities when I heard him read at Boston University some years ago.
		Komunyakaa, who appeared this past fall as part of the Lenoir-Rhyne College Writers Series, is at his best when writing about jazz, his relationships with other family members and his Vietnam experience.
	www.amazon.com /Neon-Vernacular-Selected-Wesleyan-Poetry/dp/0819512117 (1930 words)

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