Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady were the sixteenth poets in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2011. Toi Derricotte has published four books of poems, most recently the award-winning collection, Tender. Her literary memoir, The Black Notebooks, won the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Cornelius Eady, a distinguished poet and playwright whose work is often evocative of blues and jazz, has been honored with fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Hardheaded Weather.