Utterance: A Museology of Kin

by Cherryl T. Cooley (Cherryl Floyd-Miller)

Second edition of Cherryl Floyd-Miller's debut poetry collection, a semifinalist for the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and finalist for the 2002 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. These poems are about family, ancestry, woman-ness, the South and connections to cultural icons.

92 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Cherryl Floyd-Miller (Cherryl T. Cooley) is a poet, playwright and fiber artist. She has written two full-length volumes of poems: Utterance: A Museology of Kin and Exquisite Heats. Her chapbook Chops won an AIGA gold SEED Award and is housed in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. Her work has been published in Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Poemeleon, Terminus and other literary journals. One of her poems, "Percussion" was featured by The Lincoln Center and accompanied a concert by the Sō Percussion quartet in New York, Cherryl has held writing fellowships or received grants from Poets & Writers, Inc., Idyllwild Summer in Poetry, Cave Canem, the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera and the Indiana Arts Commission. She lives and works in Virginia.