Tyree Daye

Tyree Daye is author of two poetry collections, River Hymns (2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner) and Cardinal (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020). Daye was a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist and Cave Canem fellow. Daye’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, the New York Times, and Nashville Review. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, is 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and is a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist. Daye most recently was awarded a 2019 Whiting Writers Award.

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  • Tyree Daye

’tween my gone people & me

this earth but in my ancestor’s tongue
this earth full of ravens’ calls
  • Tyree Daye
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