Reading: Tyehimba Jess

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly, a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series, and Olio, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Jess is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Whiting fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award, and a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team. He is Professor of English at College of Staten Island.