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What is Cave Canem and when was it established? Name three Cave Canem Fellows and their respective published works.
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Cave Canem is committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. It began as an all-volunteer effort in 1996. Now it has become a non-profit org. with regional workships, a prize, annual anthologies, readings and events. Fellows include:
1. Alberdeston-Coralin, Jane
The Waters of My Thirst
1998
2. Bashir, Samiya A.
Where the Apple Falls
Washington DC: RedBone Press, 2005
3. Frazier, DuEwa M.
Shedding Light from My Journeys, New York NY: Lit Noire Publishing
See more here: http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/about.php
Cave Canem is a writer's center with a focus on African American poets and writers, "Committed to the Discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry."
http://www.cavecanempoets.org/index.html
Fellows of Cave Canem include Gloria Burgess, (The Open Door and Journey of the Rose); Krista Franklin (Lunar Eclipse), and Patricia A. Johnson (Color My Days Blue and Spirit Rising).
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lol I guess someone else posted the answer while I was typing mine-I am slow. Good job rhapsody.
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Congratulations, Rhapsody.
Thank you, Sandra.
Cave Canem was founded by Cornelius Eady. His collection collection, Brutal Imagination was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry and Toi Derricote, native Detroiter, poet and professor.
Sandra, has your book arrived?
Yes M'am, it has. Thank you.
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