Poetry at Mcleod: Tyree Daye

Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the winner of the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his book River Hymns, a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist, Cave Canem fellow, and longtime member of the editorial staff at Raleigh Review. He received his MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. Daye’s work has been published in The New York Times, Nashville Review and elsewhere. Daye won the Amy Clampitt Residency for 2018, and The Glenna Luschei Award for his poems in the Fall 2015 issue of Prairie Schooner. He is an assistant professor of English at St.Augustine’s University in Raleigh, NC.

Additionally, there is a workshop on Satuday, October 12 from 2 to 4 p.m. at James Island Town Hall, 1122 Dills Bluff Rd, James Island.

This series is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the South Carolina Arts Commission.

• James Island Arts
• South Carolina Arts Commission
• South Arts
• South Carolina Humanities
• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Town of James Island
• Charleston County Parks
• Charleston County Public LIbrary

Funding comes to PSSC through generous grants from the John and Susan Bennett Foundation of the Coastal Community Foundation, and the Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund.