Cornrows And Cornfields - Couverture souple

Doaks, Celeste

 
9781903110218: Cornrows And Cornfields

Synopsis


Cornrows and Cornfields is a heartfelt journey from the childhood fields of Indiana to the glittering metropolis of Chicago. Spinning together memory, popular culture and personal politics, Celeste Doaks makes words dance, weep, wail and sing often in the space of just a couple of lines.

This sublime collection of delightfully bold and vivid poems burn upon the mind's eye long after the final page is turned.

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À propos de l?auteur

In 2012 Celeste Doaks received the Lucille Clifton Scholarship to attend Squaw Valley Writers Workshop. Her work has garnered a variety of accolades including the 2009 Academy of American Poets Graduate Prize, the 2010 AWP WC&C Scholarship, and residencies at Atlantic Center of the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her journalism has appeared in the Huffington Post, Village Voice, Time Out New York, and QBR (Quarterly Black Book Review). Her poems have been published in multiple on-line and print publications such as Chicago Quarterly Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Bayou Magazine and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Celeste received her MFA from North Carolina State University; currently, she teaches creative writing at Morgan State University.

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