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Posted: Feb 13th, 2006 04:23 AM |
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The Cave Canem Summer Workshop/Retreat
June 18—June 25, 2006
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
http://www.cavecanempoets.org
OUR SUMMER PROGRAM
The challenge of creating a poem every day. African American traditions and their transformations. Fellowship and solitude. Safety and risk. A week of writing, studying, and talking poetry. The best readings you'll ever hear, the best audience you'll ever have. These are some elements that make the Cave Canem retreat an extraordinary experience for the poets who attend.
Workshops
The Cave Canem summer workshop/retreat is a place to take creative risks. Participants write a poem every day to workshop in afternoon sessions. Poets join with eight to ten others to meet with the six faculty members in turn over the course of the week. Faculty members are all experienced teachers, bringing their own aesthetic concerns, grounding in the history and craft of poetry, and mix of exercises and critique to the workshop sessions.
Optional morning workshops allow fellows to share their experience and knowledge. Participants have presented various topics as haiku, translation, the revision process, using hip-hop to teach poetry, and improvisational techniques. Guest faculty members also give morning seminars.
Readings
The range of styles and voices of faculty and fellows make the evening poetry readings a highlight of the week for many. Tim Seibles (Cave Canem faculty, 1999 – 2001) called them, "some of the best times I’ve ever spent as a listener."
A '24-7' Experience
Lively explorations of the art of poetry go on around the clock at Cave Canem, at meals and impromptu discussions in rooms and common areas. For some, however, the need for rest and reflection — and time to write — sends them to the beautiful grounds at Greensburg.
CAVE CANEM FELLOWS
Our 2006 retreat will include 52 fellows, six full-time faculty members, and two guest poets. As part of our effort to build a community of black poets and foster their careers, Cave Canem allows fellows to attend three workshop/retreats within five years. New fellows are chosen based on the quality of their submissions and the availability of space. We recognize that African American poetry is as varied as the poets who make it, and welcome writers with diverse backgrounds, styles, and subjects.
LOCATION
The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg is located 35 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a 219 acre campus noted for its natural beauty. Cave Canem will be housed in one of the Academic Villages, with classrooms, auditoriums and dormitories in close proximity. There is access to recreational activities and a nature trail is adjacent to the campus.
2006 FACULTY
Elizabeth Alexander is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent being American Sublime, as well as a collection of essays, The Black Interior, and other edited collections. She is Professor of African American Studies at Yale University.
Cyrus Cassells is the author of four books: The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, Beautiful Signore, and, most recently More than Peace and Cypresses. He is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and teaches at Texas State University.
Kwame Dawes is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently New and Selected Poems 1994 - 2002. A musician, actor, playwright, and critic, he teaches at the University of South Carolina.
Toi Derricotte is the author of five books including the memoir, The Black Notebooks, winner of the 1998 Annisfield-Wolf Book Award, and Tender, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. She is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Cornelius Eady's sixth book of poetry, Brutal Imagination, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, and as a play won an Oppenheimer Award. He is a Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Patricia Smith is a poet, performer, and journalist with awards in each field. The author of three volumes of poetry and the upcoming Fixed on a Furious Star, a biography of Harriet Tubman, she won the 2005 National Poetry Series for Teahouse of the Almighty.
GUEST FACULTY
Lucille Clifton is the author of 10 books of poetry, a memoir and 20 children's books. Her Blessing the Boats: New and Selected 1988-2000 won a National Book Award for Poetry. Recently retired from full-time teaching, Clifton is widely featured in readings and poetry workshops.
Rita Dove is the author of eight books of poetry, including her latest, American Smooth, a book of essays The Poet's World and a play The Darker Face of the Earth. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, she served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995 and is Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
FEES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
To keep the cost to participants low, there is no tuition. Room & board fees are $495 for the week-long session. Participants can apply for limited scholarship assistance to help meet the room and board fee after acceptance into the workshop.
TUITION AND ROOM & BOARD SUPPORT
Tuition and operating expenses for the Summer Workshop/Retreat are provided by foundations and corporations, including the Vira I Heinz Endowment and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Individual donors have also generously contributed to the Scholarship Fund, making possible the participation of poets who could not otherwise attend without their support. If you would like to donate toward the scholarship fund, please click here Donate.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Mail two copies of six to eight poems, with your name included on each page, along with a cover letter explaining why you would like to attend the workshop/retreat and what you want to get out of the experience. Include your address, telephone number, and email address. Additionally, include a SASE postcard if you would like to be notified that the manuscript was received. Manuscripts are not returned. No electronic submissions accepted.
Send submission to:
Cave Canem Workshop/Retreat
Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
584 Broadway, Suite 508
New York, NY 10012
REGISTRATION STARTS JANUARY 15, 2006.
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~HB~
I am not the test, just let my love be the answer.
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Do not go where the path may lead… go your own way and leave a trail.
-Anon
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CTA
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Posted: Feb 13th, 2006 04:50 AM |
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good-evening Humminbyrd,
nice of you to post this info, as oddly enough i have visited Cave Canem website a few times... seems not to be updated alot, yet they do have a links page... there u will be able to visit a given poet online home... ( aka... official website in some cases )
have a nice night...
sincerely,
cta
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unbeknown to thy world,
there thy queen sat... holding
2 precious souls, oh so dear
to thy heart... bonded for life,
as gods glory could be seen from
afar... MrAfrica
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