Toi Derricotte
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American poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Toi Derricotte is an American poet. She is the author of six poetry collections and a literary memoir. She has won numerous literary awards, including the 2020 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry awarded by the Poetry Society of America, and the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. From 2012–2017, Derricotte served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She is currently a professor emerita in writing at the University of Pittsburgh .
Toi Derricotte's Published Works
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- Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) (4)
- Won't You Celebrate with Me: Remembering Lucille Clifton (2010) (4)
- Field Trip (2001) (3)
- Understanding the New New Black Poetry (2003) (2)
- Creative Writing: A Manual for Teachers. (1985) (2)
- Cave Canem: An Introduction (1999) (1)
- The Undertaker's Daughter (2011) (1)
- On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses (1989) (1)
- Opening a Vein (1998) (1)
- Snowed-in in Boston (2014) (0)
- Introduction: Writing The Black Notebooks (1997) (0)
- Natural Birth: Poems. (1983) (0)
- I (2019) (0)
- Black Boys Play the Classics (2012) (0)
- After a Reading at a Black School (1994) (0)
- I: New & Selected Poems (2019) (0)
- At an Abraham Lincoln Celebration (2016) (0)
- Poets in Old Age (2016) (0)
- Escape (2014) (0)
- Joseph's Dream (2002) (0)
- Still Inverting History (1990) (0)
- For Sharan Strange, After a Reading (1997) (0)
- An African/American in Paris: Variations on a Theme on the publication of the French translation of The Black Notebooks (2001) (0)
- An Interview with Sharan Strange (1996) (0)
- My Mother and Duke Ellington: For Michael Harper (2001) (0)
- Billie in Frankfurt (2012) (0)
- For Sonia Sanchez on the Publication of Shake Loose My Skin, 1999 (1999) (0)
- Letter to an Editor Who Wants to Publish a Black Writer (1991) (0)
- When the Goddess Makes Love to Me (2011) (0)
- Write (2014) (0)
- The Return (2014) (0)
- Reports of the Saints (2014) (0)
- Truth is Form (2014) (0)
- Blackbottom (1995) (0)
- An Old Cherry Tree (2014) (0)
- For a New Child (1985) (0)
- The Rice King of the South (1991) (0)
- The Christ Child Speaks to St. Anthony (2002) (0)
- Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing (1991) (0)
- The Cruel Mother (1985) (0)
- For Black Women Who Are Afraid (1994) (0)
- For the young cherry tree in my yard (2016) (0)
- My Uncle & White People (2001) (0)
- May Your Days Go by in Beauty & Wonder (2012) (0)
- Dialogue (2014) (0)
- From "Natural Birth" (1981) (0)
- MLA Awards Ceremony (2020) (0)
- BARING/BEARING ANGER: (2021) (0)
- Poem for My Father (1991) (0)
- The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday (2009) (0)
- Excerpts from "The Black Notebooks," a Work-in-Progress (1991) (0)
- Andante Tenemarente (2012) (0)
- Dolls (2011) (0)
- Snowed-in in Boston (2014) (0)
- At Wintergreen: A Retreat for African-American Writers (1997) (0)
- Magnificat (2012) (0)
- Hotel Room (2014) (0)
- Advance (2014) (0)
- The Undertaker’s Daughter, and: Gershwin (2009) (0)
- Exits from Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana (1996) (0)
- Shoe Repair Business (1996) (0)
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