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Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa is a poet and professor of creative writing at NYU. His 1994 poetry collection
Neon Vernacular
won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Miki Lowe
Venus of Willendorf
A poem by Yusef Komunyakaa, published in
The Atlantic
in 1998
Yusef Komunyakaa
August 9, 2020