In this Writer's Block, Cornelius Eady discusses his creative influences, his writing process, and how Cave Canem has evolved over the years.
Interview by Rosa Williamson-Rea and Maggie Medoff. Video by Alexis Jabour. Editing by Kriti Sanghi. (Taped in the summer of 2019.)
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Cornelius Eady is the author of eight books of poetry. In 1996, Eady and poet Toi Derricote founded Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization that supports emerging African American poets through a summer retreat, regional workshops, a first-book prize, annual anthologies, and events and readings across the country. Eady has served as director of the Poetry Center at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, and has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, City College of New York, The Writer's Voice, The College of William and Mary, and Sweet Briar College. He is currently a professor in the MFA program at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton.
About Writer’s Block: The Writer’s Block is an ongoing video series of interviews with visiting writers at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. In these Q&A’s, conducted with Sampsonia Way, writers sit down with us to discuss literature, their craft, and career.
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