Posted on October 21, 2021
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, The Greensboro Review, and The UNCG African American and African Diaspora Studies Program will host a poetry reading by Tyree Daye on Thursday, October 21st at 7 PM. This virtual event in our Distinguished Visiting Writers Series will be livestreamed via our YouTube channel. It is free and open to the public. Books are available from our friends at Scuppernong Books.
Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections: River Hymns (2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner) and Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press 2020). Daye is a Cave Canem fellow and a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and most recently, was awarded a 2019 Whiting Writers Award.
