"How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets"
"The first Cave Canem retreat in 1996 gathered about two dozen young writers for a week in a former monastery in upstate New York. The retreats, which are now held at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg campus, have earned an exacting reputation. 'You are in a crucible,' said Dante Micheaux, director of programs at Cave Canem. 'A creative crucible.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Petra Kuppers on Language as Form
"In the case of 'Split/Screen,' the magic structuring principle of 'fourteen' hovered in my brain. The sonnet is a device I often use, not necessarily as a formal frame but as a couplet structure to hold against my freewrite. This offers a scaffold toward something that can spread out on the page and take up space in the world." |
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