Responding to an Ongoing Problem in American Poetry: Cave Canem 2013

• Sapphire on Precious’ Emancipation

   

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• There’s So Much to Explore: A Conversation with Poet Angela Jackson

   

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• Thomas Sayers Ellis: Keeping the Folk Tradition Alive

   

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• A Conversation with Amiri Baraka: Civils Rights, Black Arts, and Politics

   

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• It Felt Like a Door Had Opened: An Interview with Cornelius Eady

   

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• We are Not Post-Racial: An Interview with Toi Derricotte

   

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• Poet Claudia Rankine on Wounds We Shouldn’t Forget

   

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• So I Became a Witness: An Interview with Nikky Finney

   

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• We are Not Post-Racial: An Interview with Toi Derricotte

   

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• It Felt Like a Door Had Opened: An Interview with Cornelius Eady

   

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• Voices From Cave Canem: Carl Phillips

   

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• A Conversation with Amiri Baraka: Civils Rights, Black Arts, and Politics

   

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• Make the Ordinary Extraordinary: An Interview With Colleen J. McElroy

   

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• So I Became a Witness: An Interview with Nikky Finney

   

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• There’s So Much to Explore: A Conversation with Poet Angela Jackson

   

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• Make the Ordinary Extraordinary: An Interview With Colleen J. McElroy

   

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• Poet Claudia Rankine on Wounds We Shouldn’t Forget

   

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• There’s So Much to Explore: A Conversation with Poet Angela Jackson

   

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• “Words are Weapons of the Strong”: An Interview with Nikki Giovanni

   

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“Cave Canem is a response to an on-going problem in American Poetry, not a solution. It emboldens some of us to challenge the assumptions some hold of the African American poetic,” says Cornelius Eady, a co-founder of Cave Canem, in his most recent interview at Sampsonia Way.

On Thursday, June 20th City of Asylum/Pittsburgh will partner with Cave Canem to host a reading featuring poets Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Harryette Mullen, Chris Abani and musicians James Brandon Lewis, Concetta Abbate and Charlie Rauh. Click to reserve your free seats in advance.

Sampsonia Way highlights its interviews with Cave Canem fellows and faculty over the past three years.  For full interviews, click on the caption at the bottom of each slide.