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College of Central Florida invites the community to an evening of poetry and music with the Cornelius Eady Trio on Tuesday, April 7, at 7 p.m. This free event in the Debra Vazquez Memorial Poetry Series will be at the Webber Center on the 91��Ƭ Ocala Campus, 3001 S.W. College Road.

Eady, the recent winner of the Academy of American Poets’ prestigious Wallace Stevens Award, will read his original poems backed by two musicians playing jazz and blues. The National Book Award finalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee is the author of eight published volumes including “The Gathering of My Name” and “Brutal Imagination” and is the co-founder of Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization that supports emerging African American poets. He is known for works exploring music, family, and the challenges unique to the African American experience, with many poem titles paying homage to traditional blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll songs. Eady is a professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

For more information about this event, visit 91��Ƭ.edu/Events.