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“...a productive space where black poets, individually and collectively, can inspire and be inspired by others, relieved of any obligation to explain or defend their blackness.”

—Harryette Mullen

News

2012

January 17, 2012

Toi Derricotte Elected to Academy of American Poets' Board of Chancellors

2011

November 22, 2011

Nikky Finney Wins National Book Award for Poetry

September 26, 2011

Cave Canem "Brings the Drama" to Brooklyn Benefit Performance

September 20, 2011

Nicole Terez Dutton Wins 2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

June 6, 2011

Cave Canem Poets in Pittsburgh & Greensburg

April 27, 2011

Willow Books & Cave Canem Announce Publishing Partnership

April, 2011

Cave Canem Launches Open-Enrollment Workshop in Pittsburgh

March 8, 2011

Cave Canem Awarded Grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation

March, 2011

Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program Announces New Partnership with Cave Canem