Lunch Poems - Courtney Faye Taylor

Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes writer and visual artist Courtney Faye Taylor on 2/1/2024.

Courtney Faye Taylor is the author of Concentrate, which was selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Concentrate was also awarded the 2023 Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and was named a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and the Society of Midland Authors Award. The collection has been featured in Publishers Weekly,Essence magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, and has been named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine.

Taylor earned her bachelor’s degree from Agnes Scott College and her MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She is the winner of the 92Y Discovery Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize.