Skip to main content

Tyree Daye

Assistant Professor

2017, Master of Fine Arts: Concentration in Poetry, North Carolina State University

2015, Bachelor of Arts in English: Concentration in Creative Writing, North Carolina State University

Bio

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.

To read more, visit my website

Publications:

Copper Canyon Press: Cardinal (book, poetry, 2020) American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize: River Hymns (book, poetry, 2017) Academy of American Poets: Poem-a-day: “Field Notes on Beginning” (poetry) Oxford American: “The World Grows” (poetry) New York Times (Selected by Terrance Hayes): “Tamed” (poetry)

Awards

Whiting Writiers Award, 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writers-In- Residence, APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Amy Clampitt Residency, The Glenna Luschei Poetry Prize

Courses Taught:

Contact

Email
Office: Greenlaw 214
Professional Website

Research Interests:

African American Literature | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | Arabic Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Depictions Of The Child | Digital Humanities | Disability Studies | Drama | Feminist Historiography | Film and Media Studies | Genre Theory | History of the Book | Latina / Latino Literature | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science | Literature of the Americas | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Media Studies | Modernism | Narrative Theory | Pedagogy | Performance Studies | Philosophy Of Language | Poetry and Poetics | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Queer Theory | Southern Literature | The English Language | The Novel | Transatlantic Studies | Travel Writing | Visual Culture and Arts | Women Writers | Writing In The Disciplines

Faculty Type

Tenure Stream Faculty