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Toi Derricotte debuts The Undertaker’s Daughter in New York City
Award-winning Poet Reads at The New School & Conducts Master Class in DUMBO
Brooklyn, NY (January 27, 2012)—Cave Canem Foundation, North America’s premier home for black poetry, is pleased to announce that Cave Canem co-founder Toi Derricotte will debut her fifth collection of poetry, The Undertaker’s Daughter, hailed by Terrance Hayes as her “her most stirring and innovative work yet,” on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:30 pm at The New School’s Wolman Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, New York City. A book signing with the author and a reception will follow; the program is free and open to the public. In a rare opportunity for New Yorkers, on Saturday, February 18, 10 am – 1 pm, the poet will conduct “Poetry or Prose: Rethinking the Poetic Line,” a master class held at Cave Canem, 20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A, Brooklyn, New York. For more information and to register, visit www.cavecanempoets.org or call 718.858.0000.
Media Contact:
Hafizah Geter, Programs Coordinator, Cave Canem Foundation: 718.858.0000; hgeter@ccpoets.org