Cornelius Eady on Emmett Till

The New Yorker, magazine published an excruciating, beautiful, and compelling poem by Cornelius Eady, “Emmett Till’s Glass-Top Casket.” 

The poem appears in the July 27, 2020 issue. I was fortunate to introduce Cornelius Eady when he read last year in Julia deBurgos park in Willimantic. He is published in The Poetry of Joni Mitchell’s Songs, edited by Lisa and John Sornberger (Lisa is a Thread City poet).

 Eady is a co-founder of Cave Canem, which in 2016 received the National Book Foundation Literary award for Outstanding Service the the American literary community. 

This issue of The New Yorker is “an archival issue” and is dedicated to “Voices of American Dissent.” If you get a chance, read the poem, it ends with a wild surprise.