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Currently, Yusef Komunyakaa is 83 years, 6 months and 19 days old. Yusef Komunyakaa will celebrate 84rd birthday on a Tuesday 29th of April 2025. Below we countdown to Yusef Komunyakaa upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Age | 83 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 29, 1941 (Louisiana) |
| Birthday | April 29 |
| Town/City | Louisiana |
| Nationality | Louisiana |
Yusef Komunyakaa’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Yusef Komunyakaa was born in the Year of the Snake. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Snake are seductive, gregarious, introverted, generous, charming, good with money, analytical, insecure, jealous, slightly dangerous, smart, they rely on gut feelings, are hard-working and intelligent. Compatible with Rooster or Ox.
African-American poet and Pulitzer Prize recipient whose works include Copacetic and I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head. The former collection is marked by the rhythms of jazz music; the latter received the San Francisco Poetry Prize.
He was one of five children born to a Louisiana carpenter. He fought in the Vietnam War before studying at the University of Colorado.
He taught at Indiana University, Princeton University, New York University, and the University of New Orleans.
He was married to author Mandy Sayer for ten years and later had a child with poet Reetika Vazirani. Tragically, Vazirani killed herself and the couple's child in 2003.
He and Philip Levine were both recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry during the 1990s.
