| LC control no. | n 82203462 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3561.O455 |
| Personal name heading | Komunyakaa, Yusef |
| Other standard no. | 000000011440862X 32006129 Q2601996 |
| Biography/History note | Individual was a Pulitzer Prize awardee. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1947-04-29 |
| Place of birth | Bogalusa (La.) |
| Field of activity | Journalism, Military |
| Affiliation | Colorado State University University of California, Irvine United States. Army University of New Orleans Indiana University Academy of American Poets Princeton University New York University |
| Profession or occupation | Poets College teachers |
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| Found in | His Lost in the bonewheel factory, 1978: title page (Komunyakaa, Yusef) His I apologize for the eyes in my head, c1986: CIP title page (Yusef Komunyakaa) data sheet (b. Apr. 29, 1947) African American Studies Center, accessed February 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Komunyakaa, Yusef; James Willie Brown Jr.; poet; military correspondent; born 29 April, 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, United States; Bachelor of Arts, University of Colorado (1975); Master of Arts, Colorado State University (1978); Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, University of California, Irvine (1980); served in the U.S. Army as correspondent and managing editor of the Southern Cross newspaper, in Vietnam (1966); joined Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center; was English language instructor at the University of New Orleans (1984-1985) and associate professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington (1985); won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for New and Selected Poems (1994) and numerous other awards; received two Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Louisiana Arts Council, was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (1999) and professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing Program at Princeton University) New York University website, 29 Oct. 2020: Department of English Faculty page (Yusef Komunyakaa; research interests: Creative writing and poetry) <https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/english/people/faculty.html> Dirty bird blues, 2022: CIP title page (Yusef Komunyakaa) galley (The Distinguished Senior Poet in New York University's creative writing program and a former chancellor of the American Academy of Poets) |
| Associated language | eng |
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