Title
Toi Derricotte, 13th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
9-2-1990
Location
Hampton-Newport News Room, Webb Center
Author/Artist Bio
Toi Derricotte has published three collections of poetry, most recently Captivity. Her previous collections are Natural Birth and The Empress of Death House. She is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as numerous other awards. Her work has appeared in many journals--American Poetry Review, New England/Breadloaf Quarterly, Ploughshares, and Iowa Review. Sharon Olds has described her work as "one of the most beautiful and necessary voices in American poetry today." She teaches at Old Dominion University.
Description
Toi Derricotte read from her poetry at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 2, in the Hampton-Newport News Room in Webb Center.
Recommended Citation
Derricotte, Toi, "Toi Derricotte, 13th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (1990). 13th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 2-4, 1990. 10.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-1990/10
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