Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval, a National Book Award finalist, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She teaches in the English Department at Cornell University. She is currently at work on The Coal Tar Colors, her third collection of poems, and Purchase, a collection of essays.

Readings

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Writers on Writing Reading Series - Spring 2012

• Open Interval (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/22/12 | Run time: 8:32]
• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 03/22/02 | Run time: 36:13]