Gathering Ground A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade

Cave Canem has for the past 10 years dedicated itself to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. This volume presents more than one hundred poems by Cave Canem participants and faculty. Includes sonnets, a bop (a new form created by a Cave Canem faculty member), blues, sestinas, k prose poems, centos, free verse and more. Includes the poetry of Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marilyn Nelson, Sonya Sanchez, Al Young among others.