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Artist: Sarah Matthews
Poet: Denise Miller
Poem: First Tattoos

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Artist: Katie Platte
Poet: Cornelius Eady
Poem: The Racist Bone

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Denise Miller

Denise Miller is a professor, poet and mixed media artist whose publications include poems in the Offing, African American Review and Blackberry: A Magazine. They were named the 2015 Willow Books Emerging Poet, an AROHO Waves Discussion Fellowship awardee, a finalist for the Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund, and a Hedgebrook Fellow. Their full-length manuscript, Core, was released by Willow Books in November 2015 and has since been nominated for a 2016 American Book Award and a 2016 Pushcart Prize. Additionally, a number of their individual poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Miller was also named a 2016 William Randolph Hearst Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. Their chapbook, Ligatures was published in 2016 by Rattle Press. Most recently, they have been awarded a 2021 Hart Residency and a 2021 Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fellowship. Their full-length manuscript, A Ligature for Black Bodies, won the 2020 Sexton Prize for poetry and will be released internationally in July of this year. More of their work can be found at  www.denisemiller.studio.

Cornelius Eady 

Poet/Playwright/Songwriter and Cave Canem Co-Founder Cornelius Eady was born in Rochester, NY in 1954, and is Professor of English, and Chair of Excellence at the University of Tenn. Knoxville. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize; The Gathering of My Name, nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Brutal Imagination, and Hardheaded Weather. He wrote the libretto to Diedra Murray’s opera Running Man, which was short listed for the Pulitzer Prize in Theatre, and his verse play Brutal Imagination won the Oppenheimer Prize for the best first play from an American Playwright in 2001. His awards include Fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and was The Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing and Professor in English and Theater at The University of Missouri-Columbia.