Posted on January 26, 2023
The African American and African Diaspora Studies Program, in conjunction with the UNCG MFA Writing Program, will host a conversation between UNCG MFA Writing Program student James Daniels and poet Tyree Daye on Tuesday, February 21st at 5:00 PM in the UNCG Alumni House, 404 College Avenue. The event, part of the 2023 Conference on African American and African Diasporic Cultures and Experiences, is free and open to the public but registration is required. Register at: https://go.uncg.edu/register_to_cace. For more information about CACE 2023, including a full schedule of events, go to: https://aads.uncg.edu/cace/
JAMES DANIELS (he/him) is a writer, poet, educator and musician. he uses word and sound to build a body of work that affirms the heart of people in the healing process, forming experiences and creating characters that bring readers/listeners to engage with what terrifies them in the hopes of digging past the honest to establish peace and joy.
TYREE DAYE is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns, winner of the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press 2020). Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist and Cave Canem fellow. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and a 2019 Whiting Writers Award. He teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
