Cave Canem Evening
| When: |
Wednesday 15 November 2006 |
| Where: |
Lensic Performing Arts Center |
| What: | Readings & Conversations event |
About this Event
Cave Canem Evening featured Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Terrance Hayes, Patricia Smith, and Frank X Walker. Cave Canem (Beware of the Dog) is an organization committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry.
Audio from this Event
Cave Canem Evening featuring Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Terrance Hayes, Patricia Smith, and Frank X Walker | Duration: 2:10:36
Toi Derricotte
Toi Derricotte, co-founder of Cave Canem, is the author of five books. The latest, a memoir, The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey, is an extraordinary and courageous account of race in the U.S....
Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady is the author of six books of poetry including You Don’t Miss Your Water, The Autobiography of a Jukebox, and Brutal Imagination, and is co-founder of Cave Canem. His work has appeared...
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float in the Space Between: Drawings and Essays in...
Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith‘s latest poetry book is Teahouse of the Almighty. She is the author of three previous books including Life According to Motown, and her work has appeared in The Paris Review and in...
Frank X Walker
Frank X Walker is the author of five collections of poetry including Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (2003), which won the Lillian Smith Book Award; Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride (2010); and...
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