{"product_id":"gathering-ground-a-reader-celebrating-cave-canems-first-decade-9780472069248","title":"Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade","description":"Cave Canem has for the past ten years dedicated itself to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Founded in 1996 by prizewinning poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Cave Canem began as a weeklong summer workshop\/retreat and has now expanded to include regional workshops, poetry readings, a series of public conversations between major poets and emerging younger poets, and an annual first-book prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo mark the first decade of this pathbreaking project, \u003ci\u003eGathering Ground \u003c\/i\u003epresents more than one hundred poems by Cave Canem participants and faculty. It embraces an impressive and eclectic gathering of forms, including sonnets, a bop (a new form created by a Cave Canem faculty member), blues, sestinas, prose poems, centos, free verse, and more. The roster of distinguished contributors includes Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marilyn Nelson, Sonya Sanchez, Al Young, and many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor newcomers and aficionados alike, \u003ci\u003e Gathering Ground\u003c\/i\u003e assembles in one place the most innovative voices in contemporary African American poetry and boldly attests to the important position it holds in verse-making today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToi Derricotte is author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Black Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e and of four books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eTender\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaptivity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNatural Birth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Empress of the Death House\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Cornelius Eady is the author of \u003ci\u003eBrutal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Jukebox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e You Don't Miss Your Water\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Gathering of My Name\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVictims of the Latest Dance Craze\u003c\/i\u003e. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToi Derricotte is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and co-founder of the Cave Canem Foundation. She is author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Black Notebooks, \u003c\/i\u003eand of four books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eTender, Captivity, Natural Birth, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Empress of the Death House..\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cornelius Eady is co-founder of the Cave Canem Foundation. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBrutal Imagination, Autobiography of a Jukebox, You Don't Miss Your Water, The Gathering of My Name, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVictims of the Dance Craze.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Camille T. Dungy is Associate Professor of English at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. She is author of \u003ci\u003eWhat to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179029229842,"sku":"9780472069248","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4ffedee7-bfdf-4655-883a-1ffe45500fbb.jpg?v=1775633411","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gathering-ground-a-reader-celebrating-cave-canems-first-decade-9780472069248","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}