Dear Yusef: a Celebration of Yusef Komunyakaa
Hosted by John Murillo and Nicole Sealey
Thursday, March 20, 2025
6 PM ET
A Virtual Event
24PearlStreet Online Writing Program invites you to a special event celebrating the release of Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa(Wesleyan University Press, November 2024), edited by poets John Murillo and Nicole Sealey.
Readers for this event include: Major Jackson, Jennifer Jean, John Murillo and Nicole Sealey
This event is free, virtual, and open to the public. Reservations for this event will open soon.
About Our Speakers
John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Poetry Society of Virginia’s North American Book Award, the Four Quartets Prize from the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His translation of Rafael Alberti’s Concerning the Angels is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2025. He is a professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College.
Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry and an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is also the author of Ordinary Beast, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. With poet John Murillo, she edited the anthology Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters and Poems, for and about Mr. Komunyakaa. Her recent honors include the Princeton Arts and Hodder Fellowships from Princeton University, a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, and a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
Sponsored in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Mass Cultural Council, and Mass Development.
