In Conversation: Simone White & The Friend
NYIn Conversation: Simone White & The Friend 6:00PM - 7:30PM The New School RSVP for Virtual Only Event Simone White and The Friend discuss White's forthcoming book or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022), aesthetic interests, and the climate of American poetry. Simone White is a poet and critic. She…
Regional Workshop (NYC): “all swirl and pivot:” African-American Sonnets with Reginald Harris
Regional Workshop (NYC): “all swirl and pivot:” African-American Sonnets with Reginald Harris Mondays, 6:00PM - 9:00PM | Public Reading December 5 Cave Canem Foundation Visit our Submittable page to Apply The Temps, all swirl and pivot, conjured schemes. –Patricia Smith, “Motown Sonnet” For nearly 800 years, the little song of the sonnet has…
Cave Canem Presents Anticenter: Black Poetic Composition at the Margins with Quenton Baker, Chekwube Danladi & Anastacia-Reneé
Cave Canem Presents Anticenter: Black Poetic Composition at the Margins with Quenton Baker, Chekwube Danladi & Anastacia-Reneé Dodge Poetry Festival October 22, 2022 at 11:00-12:10PM Newark Museum, Billy Johnson Auditorium Register For In-person Here RSVP For Free Live-stream Despite the great flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement, Black poets and…
Cave Canem Prize Reading: Courtney Faye Taylor & Aracelis Girmay
Cave Canem Prize Reading: Courtney Faye Taylor & Aracelis Girmay 7:00PM - 8:30PM American Negro Theater Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture RSVP Concentrate (Graywolf) by Courtney Faye Taylor is a unique contribution to the legacy of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Selected by 2021 Cave Canem Prize Judge Rachel Eliza Griffiths,…
“all swirl and pivot”: A Public Reading of Sonnets
"all swirl and pivot": A Public Reading of Sonnets December 5, 2022 6:00PM - 9:00PM Cave Canem Foundation RSVP The Final Reading will showcase fresh, published, and beloved poems written by participants of Reginald Harris' Fall Regional workshop. Cave Canem is grateful to our passionate and generous community of individual donors and institutional…
First Books: Ama Codjoe & Maya Marshall
First Books: Ama Codjoe & Maya Marshall 6:00PM - 7:00PM The New School RSVP Ama Codjoe and Maya Marshall read their debut collections, Bluest Nude (Milkweed) and All the Blood Involved in Love (Haymarket), respectively. ADVANCED PRAISE FOR BLUEST NUDE "How beautifully seen, tended, and rendered are our many Black lives under this…
New Works | To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness, with Robin Coste Lewis
New Works|To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness, with Robin Coste Lewis 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (EST) The New School (Venue TBD) In-Person Registration Live-Stream Registration In her long-awaited second book, To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness, Robin Coste Lewis invites readers into an intimate manipulation, conspiring with a multiplicity of pasts and historical visions…
Invisible to Whom? | 70 Years of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NYInvisible to Whom? | 70 Years of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (EST) The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture In-Person Registration Live-stream Registration In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and…
Off The Chain | Fellowship Reading
Town Hall Seattle 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WAOff The Chain | Fellowship Reading 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (PST) Town Hall Seattle In-Person Registration Live-stream Registration Experience Cave Canem's signature off-site reading featuring a selection of Fellows from around the country.
Duende & The Harlem Arts Salon
Duende & The Harlem Arts Salon 3:20 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. (PST) Ballroom 1, Summit Building Seattle Convention Center, Level 5 705 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101 AWP Conference Registration In 2004, the successful San Diego art gallerist Margaret Porter Troupe returned to Harlem with her husband, the award-winning poet Quincy Troupe. Inviting their extensive,…