Yusef Komunyakaa (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of...
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American poet and author Yusef Komunyakaa. It is a reflection on Komunyakaa's first visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Komunyakaa served in Vietnam and...
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James Wright, Jean Valentine, Stanley Kunitz, Heather McHugh, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Notable nature and environment authors published include William Sargent...
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is the first poem in the 2015 book The Emperor of Water Clocks by Yusef Komunyakaa, an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994. "The...
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Gold, Jay Gummerman, Gerald Haslam, James D. Houston, Diane Johnson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Peter Matthiessen, David Perlman, Alice...
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Brooke Shields Michael Johnson, country and folk singer-songwriter Yusef Komunyakaa (MA '81), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne LaBastille, author, ecologist...
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above. Trumaine Johnson, Grambling and professional football player Yusef Komunyakaa (born in 1947 in Bogalusa), winner of 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;...
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Native American to go to space, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2002 Yusef Komunyakaa (B.A. 1975) - first African-American to win Pulitzer Prize for poetry...
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Literary Magazine Award. Past contributors include: Denise Duhamel, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stuart Dybek, Sherman Alexie, Gary Soto, Philip Levine, Peter Selgin...
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