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Poet Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is published by Algonquin Books this month. Of his new collection of essays, Tracy K. Smith writes, “Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small […]
Join the Academy of American Poets for an evening reading with Indiana Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka, 2016 Walt Whitman Award winner Mai Der Vang, and Cave Canem Foundation co-founder Toi Derricotte. Oregon Ballroom 201-202, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2 Saturday, […]
In connection with Black Poetry: A Conference, Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts/Program in Creative Writing, Bain-Swiggett Fund/Department of English, Humanities Council, Department of African American Studies, University Center for Human Values, Department of Comparative Literature, Program in Canadian Studies, […]
I lost so much of the world’s beauty, as if I were watching every shining gift on its branch with one eye. Because I was hungry. Because I was waiting to eat, a self crawling about the world in search […]
I New & Selected By Toi Derricotte How do you gain access to the power of parts of yourself you abhor, and make them sing with beauty, tenderness, and compassion? This is a record of fifty years of victories in […]
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry 2012 Winner - Toi Derricotte “We are very proud to name Toi Derricotte the winner of this year’s PEN/Voelcker Award. Derricotte is the author of five books of poetry: The Undertaker’s Daughter; Tender; Captivity; Natural Birth; […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 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 […]
New York, January 17—Tree Swenson, Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, announced that Toi Derricotte, Jane Hirshfield, and Arthur Sze have been elected to the Board of Chancellors, the Academy’s advisory board of distinguished poets. tderricotteThe new Chancellors […]
THE POETRY CENTER AT PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE 2012 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement for Previous Winners of The Paterson Poetry Prize Toi Derricotte for The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press)