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Global Distinguished Professor of English
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Research Interests: Creative writing; poetry
Fellowships/Honors: William Faulkner Prize from the Universite Rennes, the Thomas Forcade Award, the Hanes Poetry Prize, fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Louisiana Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam, where he served as a correspondent and managing editor of the Southern Cross
Selected Works:
Taboo: The Wishbone
Trilogy, Part 1 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004);
Pleasure Dome: New
& Collected Poems, 1975-1999 (Wesleyan University Press, 2001);
Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000);
Thieves of Paradise (1998), which
was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award;
Neon
Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989 (1994), for which he
received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award;
Magic
City (1992);
Dien Cai Dau (1988), which won The Dark Room Poetry
Prize;
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986), winner of the San
Francisco Poetry Center Award;
Copacetic (1984).
Komunyakaa's prose is collected in Blues Notes: Essays, Interviews &
Commentaries (University of Michigan Press, 2000).
The Jazz Poetry Anthology (co-editor with J. A. Sascha Feinstein, 1991)
The Insomnia of Fire by Nguyen Quang Thieu (co-translator with Martha
Collins, 1995)
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