Date & time
Friday, March 14, 2025
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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What the poem needs: A discussion on progresss and rewriting with Professor Cornelius Eady
Speaker(s)
Professor Cornelius Eady
Cost
This event is free but registration is required
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room 646
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Professor Cornelius Eady
Please join us for a poetry reading and discussion with honoured guest, Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady is currently Professor of English and John C. Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. From September 2021 to December 2022 he also served as interim Director of Poets House in New York City. Eady is the author of ten poetry collections, including The Gathering of My Name (1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Brutal Imagination (2001), a National Book Award finalist; and Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (2008), nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
This event is hosted by Concordia's Department of English and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability.