Everett Hoagland
Photo Credit: Mike Couto

Hayes Davis

Hallie Hobson

Along with Cave Canem fellows Hayes Davis and Hallie Hobson, Everett Hoagland, the author of six collections of poetry, will read original verse in this famed plein air venue, called "an oasis of peace and calm nestled in [a] canyon of skyscrapers." The program is free to the public and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, as well as grants from The Greenwall Foundation and The New York Community Trust, Lila Wallace Theater Fund. Additional support has been provided by New York University Creative Writing Program.

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Wednesday
October 1, 2008
6:30 pm

Legacy Conversation with
Ishmael Reed & Al Young

The New School
Theresa Lang Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York

Ishmael Reed

Al Young

Latasha Diggs

Join these two distinguished men of letters as Latasha Diggs engages them in a lively dialogue about the historical and cultural influences on their work. A brief reading will precede the interview.

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Thursday
October 16, 2008
7:30 pm

Walter Mosley in Pittsburg: A Benefit Reading for Cave Canem

Byham Theater
101 6th Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Walter Mosley

Enjoy an exceptional evening with Walter Mosley while helping Cave Canem thrive. One of the nation’s "most humane, insightful, powerful prose stylists working today in any genre" debuts his newest book, The Right Mistake, with a reading, conversation and book signing to benefit Cave Canem.

Tickets: $10 - $25
Box Office at Theater Square
(412) 456 -6666

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Thursday
November 6, 2008
6:30 pm

Poets on Craft: Major Jackson & Suji Kwock Kim

The New School
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York

Major Jackson

Suji Kwock Kim

Join Major Jackson and Suji Kwock Kim for an evening of conversation and poetry. After a brief reading, the two prize-winning poets will engage in a lively dialogue about the directions of contemporary poetry.

This program inaugurates Poets on Craft, a series focusing on the perspectives of poets whose work responds, however indirectly, to the experience of living and working as a minority artist in a Eurocentric culture.

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