John Keene

Ana-Maurine Lara

Sherry Quan Lee

Aya De Leon

Mendi Lewis Obadike:
Sweat

Mendi Lewis & Keith Obadike’s Personal website
Both sites contain links to their on-line art, net.operas and performance pieces.

Interview with Mendi Lewis & Keith Obadike
From the Exit the Apple website.

JoAnne McFarland

POETRY LINKS

The Academy of American Poets

The Affrilachian Poets
Poets of African descent from the Appalachian region. Cave Canem Faculty member Nikky Finney and Fellows Mitchell Douglas, Kelly Norman Ellis, Amanda Johnston, Natasha Marin, Stephanie Pruitt, Bianca Spriggs, and Frank X Walker are Affrilachians. Their journal, Pluck publishes the work of voices of color from the states touched by the Appalachians (Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania).

Alice James Books
A cooperative poetry press affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington. Cave Canem Fellow Adrian Matejka won Alice James' 2003 New England/New York Award for his manuscript The Devil's Garden.

Ambulant
On line poetry journal, edited by Cave Canem fellow Andre Hoilette

American Poetry Review
30+ year-old, newsprint-tabloid format poetry journal with an international audience. APR has featured a number of Cave Canem faculty and fellows, including Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Ross Gay, and others.

The Atlantic Online's Poetry Pages
Poetry, criticism, articles, and recordings of poets reading their work from The Atlantic Monthly's extensive archives

The Atlantic Online's Poetry Pages
Poetry, criticism, articles, and recordings of poets reading their work from The Atlantic Monthly's extensive archives

Baobab Poetry Collective
Georgia-based African-American poets, including Fellows Lita Hooper and Nagueyalti Warren.

Coal Black Voices
Documentary featuring images, poetry, and storytelling by the Affrilachian Poets as they give glimpses of life in the American Black South and Appalachian region. Includes readings and commentary by Cave Canem Faculty member Nikky Finney and Fellow Frank X. Walker

Blue Fifth Review
An on-line 'electronic journal of poetry on the edge.'

In the Archives (Winter 2005): Poems by Cave Canem Fellow Evie Shockley

The Cortland Review
Poetry-filled monthly online journal featuring extensive audio archives.

In the Archives (Spring 2001): Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Renegade) appears on Grace Cavalieri's "The Poet and the Poem" program to read and discuss Poetry and Rap

Jayne Cortez

Atlantic Center for the Arts
A nonprofit, interdisciplinary artists’ community and arts education facility in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

B/GLAM
Black Gay Letters and Arts Movement, co-founded by Cedric Brown and Cave Canem fellow Marvin K. White.

Black Issues Book Review

Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire Journal

The Blue Moon
One of the oldest literary magazines online.
In the Archives: A poem by Cave Canem fellow Greg Pardlo.

Bloom
Literary journal supporting the work of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered writers and artists and fostering the appreciation of queer literature and creation. Cave Canem fellows Jericho Brown, Reginald Harris, and Mendi Lewis Obadike have had work featured in the journal.

Born Magazine
An experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Cave Canem fellows Sean Hill and A. Van Jordan have work featured on this site.

Breadloaf Writer’s Conference
Long established writing workshops in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction sponsored by Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont. Breadloaf also sponsors the Bakeless Prizes.

Bronx Arts Council

Archibald Bush Foundation
An independent, private foundation that focuses grants in the Dakotas, Minnesota, and parts of northwestern Wisconsin. Cave Canem fellow Sean Hill received a 2005 Bush Artist Fellowship.

Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters

Calabash International Literary Festival

Callaloo
African and African-American literary journal. Volume 22 #4 (Fall 1999) Features a Cave Canem Special Section. NOTE: Access to archives available only through registered institutions.

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Detroit, Michigan

Carolina Wren Press

Center for Black Literature
Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, hosts of the National Black Writers Conference.

Committee on Black Performing Arts
Stanford University, publishers of Black Arts Quarterly

Curbstone Press

Fence Magazine
Cave Canem Faculty and Fellows have been featured in many issues of this journal dedicated to "fence-sitters… writers who challenge their readers by means of density and complexity, but who exclude no one from that readership in the name of an academic purity, or a pre-ordained set of obscurities."

Spring 1998 issue features work by Cave Canem Faculty member Michael S. Harper.

Fall/Winter 1999/2000 issue features work by Cave Canem Faculty member Harryette Mullen.

Fall/Winter 2000/2001 issue features comments by Cave Canem Fellow Ronaldo Wilson in the "Symposium on Subjectivity and Style"

Spring/Summer 2001 issue features work by Cave Canem Fellows Dawn Lundy Martin and Ronaldo Wilson and comments by Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady, Faculty members Elizabeth Alexander, Harryette Mullen, and Fellow Tracie Morris in the "What's African American about African-American Poetry?" discussion.

Fall/Winter 2002 issue features work by Cave Canem Fellows G. E. Patterson and a Special Section on the Black Took Collective (Duriel Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin and Ronaldo Wilson), with John Keene, giovanni singleton, and Yolanda Wisher joining the 'Call for Dissonance.'

Spring/Summer 2002 issue features work by Cave Canem Fellows Mendi Lewis Obadike and Christopher Stackhouse

Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing emerging writers and visual artists with time and space in which to pursue independent work in a community of their peers.

Gargoyle Magazine
This Washington DC-based literary journal has featured the work of many Cave Canem faculty and fellows, including Elizabeth Alexander, Reginald Harris, Brandon D Johnson, and DJ Renegade.

Graywolf Press

Gulf Coast
This "Journal of Literature and Fine Art" from the University of Houston has featured work by Cave Canem Fellows Jericho Brown, Terrance Hayes, 2002 Cave Canem Prize winner Tracy K. Smith, and others.

Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut
Home of the annual Sunken Garden Poetry Festival.

The HOW(ever) and HOW2 archive at Rutgers University
For women poets writing experimentally. In the archives: Volume 1 Number 8 (Fall 2002) features work by Cave Canem Fellows Mendi Lewis Obadike and Evie Shockley

National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts, "which believes that a great nation deserves great art," is a supporter of Cave Canem's 2004 Summer Workshop Retreat.

NPR: National Public Radio
Check these dates in the archives for the following Cave Canem Poets:

All Things Considered:
July 18, 2004
A. Van Jordan discusses M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, his suite of poems imagining the life of MacNolia Cox, the first black finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition, with NPR's Susan Stamberg.

All Things Considered:
May 2002
Gregory Pardlo reviews Major Jackson's Cave Canem Prize winning Leaving Saturn.

All Things Considered:
August 20, 2001
Nelson Demery, Treasure Williams and Sonia Sanchez talk with Desiree Cooper about their work and whether it should be considered “Black Poetry”


Weekend All Things Considered:
Sunday February 11, 2001
Cave Canem co-Founder Cornelius Eady discusses Brutal Imagination


Morning Edition:
March 27, 2006
Frank X. Walker on "Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges" as part of NPR's 'This I Believe' series on the core beliefs that guide individuals daily lives.

Morning Edition:
July 23, 2002
Black Issues in Higher Education assistant editor and Cave Canem fellow Kendra Hamilton discusses the transformation of Uncle Tom, central character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, from hero to insult.

Desiree Cooper, (Cave Canem Board of Directors Secretary) is a frequent contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered

New England Review
In the archives: Volume 25, Number 4: A poem by 1999 Cave Canem Prize Winner Natasha Trethewey.

New School University
New York New York

North Country Institute for Writers of Color
Annual weeklong retreat held on the campus of the State University of New York - Plattsburgh.

Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora
Cave Canem fellow Duriel Harris is Poetry Editor of Obsidian III.

Oxonian Review of Books
This journal published by members of the University of Oxford community has featured two poems by Cave Canem Fellow Christian Campbell in Volume 2, Issue 3.

Painted Bride Quarterly
This journal has featured work by Cave Canem Fellow Sean Hill.

Cave Canem Fellow Greg Pardlo is a Senior Editor, Fellow and Cave Canem Book Award Winner Major Jackson a Contributing Editor, to PBQ.

The Pedestal Magazine.com
This online journal of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and art has featured work by Cave Canem Fellow David Mills

PEN American Center
Largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization, PEN American Center works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship.

Pënz(It's pronounced pants)

PennSound
An ongoing project at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives. Cave Canem faculty and fellows recorded by the project include Erica Hunt, Yusef Komunyakaa, Herman Beavers and Tracie Morris

Ploughshares
Literary Journal published in April, August, and December at Emerson College. Each issue is guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady was Guest Editor of the Spring 2002 issue of Ploughshares. Work by many other Fellows and Faculty can be found in the Authors and Articles archives.

PMS: PoemMemoirStory
This annual journal from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, committed to publishing women's work in three genres -- Poetry, Memoir, and Story -- has featured work by Cave Canem Fellows Remica Bingham, Honi Jeffers, Mendi Lewis Obadike and Cave Canem Prize Winner Natasha Tretheway.

Post No Ills
On-line 'Review of Reviews' edited by Cave Canem Prize Winner Kyle Dargan

The Potomac
Washington DC-based journal of poetry and politics.
In the archive: Issue 4 (Spring 2006) an interview with Cave Canem Fellow Brian Gilmore

Poets & Writers Magazine

Rain Taxi Review of Books
Quarterly publication that publishes reviews of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction with an emphasis on works that push the boundaries of language, narrative, and genre.

Salt River Review
In the Archive (Volume 3 Number 3, Fall 2000): Two Poems by Cave Canem Fellow Reginald Harris

The Seattle, Washington, Arts Commission's Arts Resource Network

Smartish Pace
In Interviews: A talk with Cave Canem Fellow Shara McCallum. In Reviews: considerations of Shara McCallum's The Waters Between Us and Marilyn Nelson's Fields of Praise.

Sou'wester
Literary journal based at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
In The Archive: The Spring 2003 issue's special section "New Tracks on the Road: Emerging Black Writers" features with work by Cave Canem fellows Camille Dungy, Reginald Harris, Adrian Matejka, Lenard Moore, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Hermine Pinson, Wendy S. Walters, and others, guest edited by Cave Canem Fellow Ruth Ellen Kocher

Split Rock Arts Program
Design, studio arts, and writing workshops in northern Minnesota, part of the University of Minnesota's College of Continuing Education.

Story South
In the Archive (Spring 2002): A poem by Cave Canem Book Award Winner Natasha Trethewey

The Studio Museum in Harlem
New York, New York

Third World Press

Tia Chucha Press

Tupelo Press
Independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry and literary fiction by emerging and established writers. Cave Canem Fellow Amaud Johnson won Tupelo Press' 2004 Dorset Prize for Red Summer.

Torch
Poetry, prose, and short stories by African American Women

University of Georgia Press

University of Pittsburgh Press

University Press of Virginia

The University of San Francisco's
Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation
The Voices Writing Workshop is a special gathering of writers who spend 1-2 weeks working with authors and writers of color.

University of Georgia Press