Tyree Daye

Biography

Tyree Daye is the author of two poetry collections: River Hymns (American Poetry Review, 2017), the APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, and Cardinal (Copper Canyon, 2020). Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly finalist and Cave Canem fellow. Daye’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, the New York Times, and Nashville Review. Daye, the 2019 winner of the Whiting Award in poetry, has also won the 2019 Langston Hughes Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship, the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and was a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. 

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2019

Carry Me

By Tyree Daye

I followed the shimmer far down a road I still haven’t found 
the ending to.

POETRY / Winter 2019

From Which I Flew

By Tyree Daye

Only together holding hands in silence can I see what a field has done
to my mother, aunts, and uncles. 

POETRY / Winter 2019

I Wanted to Place an Ocean

By Tyree Daye

The fields of Rolesville belong to my kinfolk, dead and alive.