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Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Komunyakaa received the 2007 Louisiana Writer Award for his enduring contribution to the poetry world. His subject matter ranges from the black experience through rural Southern life before the Civil Rights era and his experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War.
BornJames William Brown, April 29, 1941 (according to US Army discharge papers of 14 December 1966 and other evidence as cited by his former wife Mandy Sayer, although passport supposedly says 1947)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColorado State University
GenrePoetry
Notable works"Facing It"
Notable awardsKingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

About Yusef Komunyakaa

Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in Louisiana, United States on April 29, 1941. He's 82 years old today.

Copacetic and I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head are two poems by an African-American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize. The former is defined by jazz music's rhythms, while the latter won the San Francisco Poetry Prize.

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Yusef Komunyakaa before becoming famous

Yusef Komunyakaa was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1941 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He was one of five children born to a carpenter in Louisiana. Before attending the University of Colorado, he served in the Vietnam War.

Achievement of Yusef Komunyakaa

He was a professor at Indiana University, Princeton University, New York University, and the University of New Orleans, among other institutions.

Yusef Komunyakaa's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was married to novelist Mandy Sayer for ten years before marrying poet Poet Reetika Vazirani and having a child with her. In 2003, Vazirani tragically killed herself and the couple's child.

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During the 1990s, he and Poet Philip Levine were both awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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