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Common Read: Yusef Komunyakaa

This LibGuide will enhance your understanding of Yusef Komunyakaa and his literary works.

Interviews with Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa interviewed for A GoodLife TV (2011):


Yusef Komunyakaa Offering Advice to Young Poets:

 


Yusef Komunyakaa Reading from His Works and Discussing His Craft (Butler University - 2010):

 


Yusef Komunyakaa Reading from His Work and Interviewed by Dan Chelotti (this is an excellent interview and reading at New York's Strand Bookstore - skip to the 26" mark to hear Komunyakaa begin to read and the interview comes after):

 

Readings by Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa Reads from Representative Selections from His Work (sponsored by Red Hen Press at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA):

 


Yusef Komunyakaa Reads from The Chameleon Couch (at the 2011 National Book Award Finalists Reading):



Yusef Komunyakaa Reading "Grenade" at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts:

 


Subject Guide

Audio Recordings of Komunyakaa Reading

NOTE: In order to appreciate a poet fully, it is best to hear his/her voice. Poets know the inflections and emotional points in their poems, and it is a pleasure to hear a poem read with the authenticity of the writer. In the audio recordings below, Komunyakaa reads from dozens of his poems. Also, full text is available for some of his poems on a few of the websites listed below.

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