Poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, who read Oct. 14 at the August Wilson Center for African-American Culture, was nominated that same day for a National Book Award in Poetry for her collection, “Open Interval.” She's a professor of English at Cornell University and was joined in the reading by poets Terrance Hayes of Carnegie Mellon University and Afaa Michael Weaver, director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center in Boston.
Five nominees in fiction, nonfiction, children's literature and poetry were announced by National Book Foundation in New York. The winners will be announced Nov. 18.
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Oct 14 2009, 08:37 PM
by
Bob Hoover