March 7-9, 2007

Wed Mar 7

8 p.m. Keynote address: Arnold Rampersad.

McKenna Hall

9:15 p.m. Reception, McKenna Hall

Thurs Mar 8

11 – 12:15 p.m.Workshop for undergrads, staff, community led by Cave Canem

poet (Opal Moore), 200 McKenna Hall

2 -3:15 p.m. Legacy panel: Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte, Ivy Wilson, 100-104 McKenna Hall

5 p.m. Pre-reading reception and book-signing, McKenna Hall

6 – 8 p.m. Reading with all poets (10 minutes each), 100-104 McKenna Hall

Fri Mar 9

10:45 -12 p.m. Workshop for undergrads, staff, community led by Cave Canem poet (A. Van Jordan), 200 McKenna Hall

10:45 – 12 p.m. Classroom visit with poets.

Poets

(Photo by Brigitte Carnochan) Arnold Rampersad

Yusef Komunyakaa

Toi Derricotte,the co-founder of Cave Canem, has published four books of poems, including Tender, which won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize, and one memoir, The Black Notebooks, which received many awards, including the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Among her many honors are fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two Pushcart Prizes. She is Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh.

Cornelius Eady

Ross Gay's first book is Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in APR, Harvard Review, Nightsun, and many other journals. He is on the faculty of New England College's Low-Residency M.F.A. Program.

(photo by Carla Fielder/Norton & Co.) A. Van Jordan

John Keene is the author of Annotations (New Directions) and, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of Seismosis (1913 Press). He received a 2005 Whiting Fellowship, and teaches at Northwestern University.

(Photo by Earl Picard) Opal Moore(Lot's Daughters, Third World Press 2005) teaches creative writing at Spelman College in Atlanta GA.

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Black Swan (University of Pittsburgh Press), winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She teaches at Cornell.

Ivy Wilson

Sponsored by the generous support of:

The Paul M. and Barbara Henkels Visiting Scholar Series

The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts

The Office of the Provost

The Office of Research

The Creative Writing Program

Gender Studies

The Department of English

Richard and Catherine Sturtevant Endowment for Excellence in English

The Department of Africana Studies

Cornelius Eady

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