Cave Canem Evening
When: | Wednesday 15 November 2006 |
Where: |
Lensic Performing Arts Center
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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 is the author of I: New & Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), a 2019 National Book Award finalist; The Undertaker’s Daughter (2011), and four earlier collections of...

Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady is the author of eight books of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (Putnam, April 2008). His second book, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, won the Lamont...

Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, a finalist for a National Book Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a T. S. Eliot...

Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith is the author of seven books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (2017), poems about Emmett Till, which won an NAACP Image Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the Los Angeles...

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...