Gathering Ground A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade

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.Derricotte, Toi is the author of 'Gathering Ground A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade', published 2006 under ISBN 9780472069248 and ISBN 0472069241.