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Cave Canem @ The Academy
Selected by Reginald Harris
Description

Poets and poems with connections to Cave Canem Foundation, a national organization committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets: www.cavecanempoets.org
Synopsis

Cave Canem fellows, faculty, guest poets and instructors.
 
Poetry
Letter to Brooks [Spring Garden] by Major Jackson
A Bird in Hand by Amber Flora Thomas
All Their Stanzas Look Alike by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Atlantic City Sunday Morning by Gregory Pardlo
Copyright by Gregory Pardlo
Duende by Tracy K. Smith
Fixed by Christopher Stackhouse
He Dreams of Falling by Ruth Ellen Kocher
James Lewis's Hands by Constance Quarterman Bridges
Leda, After the Swan by Carl Phillips
Migration by Major Jackson
Muse, a Lady Cautioning by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Sticks by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Title It Shotgun Wound by Gregory Pardlo
Transit of Venus by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
 
Prose
Masters and Master Works: On Black Male Poetics by Afaa M. Weaver
Poetic Form: The Bop
Survival in Two Worlds at Once: Federico Garcia Lorca and Duende by Tracy K. Smith
The Line Between Two Worlds: Tracy K. Smith and Elizabeth Alexander in Conversation by Tracy K. Smith
 
Poets
Elizabeth Alexander
Cyrus Cassells
Cheryl Clarke
Lucille Clifton
Toi Derricotte
Rita Dove
Cornelius Eady
Michael S. Harper
Terrance Hayes
Yusef Komunyakaa
Shara McCallum
Harryette Mullen
Marilyn Nelson
G. E. Patterson
Willie Perdomo
Carl Phillips
Claudia Rankine
Sonia Sanchez
Ntozake Shange
Patricia Smith
Natasha Trethewey
Afaa M. Weaver
Al Young
Kevin Young
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