Callaloo Celebrates 50 Years

Celebrate Callaloo’s Southern Voices issue (44.4), commemorating the journal’s 50th anniversary. Guest edited by UNC Creative Writing faculty member Tyree Daye. Refreshments provided.

Presented by the Creative Writing Program and Southern Cultures quarterly

Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner and Cardinal forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press 2020. Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist and Cave Canem fellow. Daye’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, New York Times, Nashville Review. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, 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.