| Public readings give Cave Canem an opportunity to showcase the talent of our fellows and to support their development as confident presenters of their work. We sponsor an annual reading at the Celebration of Black Writing in Philadelphia and have collaborated with the Academy of American Poets to present the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and fellows with new books at a New York City reading for the past two years.
Cave Canem and the New School University’s Creative Writing Program collaborate on an ongoing series of Legacy Conversations, where prominent African American poets discuss their lives, their work, and the interplay between the two. Past Conversations have featured Sonia Sanchez and Lucille Clifton in conversation, Rita Dove interviewed by Elizabeth Alexander, and Yusef Komunyakaa interviewed by Terrance Hayes. These events are made possible through a grant from the New York Community Trust.
Cave Canem readings were part of the 2001 People's Poetry Gathering in New York City, the 2004 Furious Flower Black Poetry Conference, and the Virginia Festival of the Book for the past two years. Other readings have been held at the Sol Goodman YM/YWHA, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Nuyorican Poetry Café in New York City, Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland, and in Washington, DC, Detroit, New Orleans, and other cities.
UPCOMING EVENTS
February 13, 2006
Faculty member and Cave Canem Poetry Prize Judge Sonia Sanchez reads with the 2005 Prize Winner, Constance Quarterman Bridges
Folger Shakespeare Library (Elizabethan Theater), 201 East Capitol Street, Southeast, Washington, DC 20003. 7:30pm
February 24, 2006
Cave Canem at The Studio Museum in Harlem features Christina Burroughs, Douglas Kearney, Shelagh Patterson & Bakar Wilson responding to the Museum's exhibit "Frequency." Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York, NY. 7 pm
March 10, 2006
Cave Canem at AWP Cave Canem co-founders Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, faculty member Patricia Smith, and fellows Jericho Brown, Amaud Johnson and Tracy K. Smith read as part of the Associated Writing Programs Annual Convention.
Austin Convention Center, 500 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX. 1:30-2:45pm
March 24, 2006
Cave Canem at the Virginia Festival of the Book. Fellows Remica Bingham, Carleasa Coates, Camille Dungy, Brian Gilmore, Kendra Hamilton, Monica Hand, Brandon Johnson, Raina Leon, Venus Thrash and Toni Wynn read at this year's annual event for book-lovers. Gravity Lounge, 103 South First Street, Charlottesville, VA. 8 pm.
April 24, 2006
Cave Canem Legacy Conversation Series featuring Naomi Long Madgett interviewed by Cave Canem co-founder Toi Derricotte. The New School (Wollman Hall),65 West 11th Street, New York, NY. 7 pm. Free.
April 25, 2006
Cave Canem Poetry Prize Reading with 2005 Prize Winner Constance Quarterman Bridges, Judge Sonia Sanchez, and finalists . Christian Campbell and Raina Leon. The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. 7 pm.
RECENT EVENTS
September 15, 2005
"Poetic Rendezvous" at the New Haven Free Public Library, featured Tonya Hegamin and other Cave Canem Fellows who have also attended Connecticut Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson’s Soul Mountain Retreat at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT.
Cave Canem Fellows are organizing readings in cities around the county: watch for upcoming readings and events on the Cave Canem Calendar
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