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The Rough Magic Of Cornelius Eady
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In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview poet, playwright, musician, and professor Cornelius Eady.
Music featured in this episode:
"The Pickle King" by The Cornelius Eady Trio
"Bree" by The Cornelius Eady Trio
Cornelius Eady is the author of several books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Hardheaded Weather, which was nominated for an 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 Toi Derricote, Eady is cofounder of Cave Canem, a national organization for African American poetry and poets. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy, and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award.
You can find him at: https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/cornelius-eady/
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