Established in 1999, this first book award is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional
manuscripts by African American poets. The participation of distinguished judges and
prominent literary presses has made this prize highly competitive.
2008 CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZE
Judge: Clarence Major
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Clarence Major is a prizewinning poet, painter and novelist whose first collection of poems, Swallow the Lake, won the National Council on the Arts Award in 1970. Author of 10 books of poetry Major was a 1999 Bronze Medal finalist for the National Book Award for Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998. Major’s poetry also earned him a 1971 New York Cultural Foundation prize. He is a contributor to more than 100 periodicals and anthologies. He has read his poetry at the Guggenheim Museum, the Folger Theatre, and in hundreds of universities, theaters, and cultural centers in the United States and Europe. In Yugoslavia he represented the United States in 1975 at the International Poetry Festival. He is also the editor of several landmark anthologies. Clarence Major lives in northern California.
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PRIZE WINNERS 1999-2007
Prize Winning Collections
2007
Ronaldo Wilson for Narrative of The Life of The
Brown Boy and The White Man, selected by Claudia Rankine, published by The University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008.
Finalists: Erica Doyle and Nicole Terez Dutton.
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2006
Dawn Lundy Martin for A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering, selected by Carl Phillips, published by The University of Georgia Press (2007).
2005
Constance Quarterman Bridges for
Lions Don't Eat Us, selected by Sonia Sanchez, published by Graywolf Press (2006).
2004
Amber Flora Thomas for Eye of Water, selected by Harryette Mullen, published by The University of Pittsburgh Press (2005).
2003
Kyle Dargan for The Listening, selected by Quincy Troupe, published by The University of Georgia Press (2004)
2002
Tracy K. Smith for The Body's Question, selected by Kevin Young, published by Graywolf Press(2003).
2001
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon for Black Swan, selected by Marilyn Nelson, published by The University of Pittsburgh Press (2002).
2000
Major Jackson for Leaving Saturn, selected by Al Young, published by The University of Georgia Press (2002).
1999
Natasha Trethewey for Domestic Work, selected by Rita Dove, published by Graywolf Press (2000).
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