Eady, Cornelius
Cornelius Eady is the author of seven books of poetry; Kartunes, (Warthog Press, 1980), Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, (Ommation Press, 1986), winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, The Gathering of My Name, (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991), nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, You Don’t Miss Your Water, (Henry Holt and Co., 1995), The Autobiography of a Jukebox (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1997),  Brutal Imagination (Putnam, 2001), and The War Against The Obvious; New and Selected Poems (forthcoming, 2008, Putnam) He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry,), a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Traveling Scholarship, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy, and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award.  Cornelius Eady is co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Cave Canem and is presently Associate Professor of English at Notre Dame.

Cornelius Eady reads in the Writers At Newark Reading Series with Dagoberto Gilb on Wed., Jan. 30, 2008, 5:30-7 p.m., at Paul Robeson Gallery.