NEO•GRIOT

September

September 6: Deadline to Apply
Cave Canem New York City Workshop: Writing Down the Music

September 7, 12:30 pm
Cave Canem at Word for Word

Sample exceptional poetry from Cave Canem fellows Jocelyn Burrell, Monica A. Hand and Lorelei Williams in New York City's famed plein air venue. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored with Bryant Park.

Bryant Park Reading Room
42nd Street between 5th & 6th Avenues
New York, NY
Rain venue:
The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street

September 12
Cave Canem Poets at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY

Cave Canem acts as Programming Partner for the Brooklyn Book Festival, the largest festival of its kind in New York, presenting a diverse array of literary stars and emerging authors who represent the exciting world of literature today. Join us for a day of exciting poetry readings, panels and workshops.

• Cave Canem Workshop with Evan Burton
  Time & location TBA
  Visual artists have known for centuries that representation requires some artificial manipulation; that is, one must compress, augment or distort reality to transfer it to a medium. Poets could benefit from the same thinking. This workshop will focus on examples and techniques of poetic distortion with the hope of creating poems that echo the elegance, strangeness, and drama of some forms in life. Open to all levels.
• Brooklyn Poet Laureate Presents
  10 am, Mainstage
  Brooklyn's new poet laureate, Tina Chang, presents a few of her favorite poets. Featuring readings by Mark Doty, Terrance Hayes, Ada Limón and Tracy K. Smith. Moderated by Tina Chang.
• PSA Presents: Established & Emerging poets
  11 am, Mainstage
  The nation's oldest poetry organization celebrates its 100th anniversary with some of the country's foremost poets and emerging voices. Featuring readings by Martín Espada, Dorothea Lasky, John Murillo and Jean Valentine. Moderated by Rob Casper.
• Verbal Catalysts
  11 am, North Stage
  The city's top teen poets from Urban Word and Community Word perform with special guests Aracelis Girmay, A. Van Jordan and Lynne Procope.
• The Transformation of the Book
  1 pm, St. Francis Reading Room
  Four poets discuss how authors and publishers are expanding and re-framing the notion of what a book is, and what it can do. Featuring Jen Bervin, Tan Lin and Mendi Obadike. Moderated by Camille Rankine.
• Poetry and Prose
  3 pm, St. Francis Reading Room
  A panel discussing how poetry and prose—be it fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, or journalism—relate to and inform each other. Featuring well-known practitioners of both poetry and prose Monica Ferrell, Phillip Lopate, Katha Pollitt and Maureen N. McLane. Moderated by Meghan O’Rourke.

For further details and a full listing of events, visit brooklynbookfestival.org.

September 16, 7 pm
Intersections: Cave Canem & Letras Latinas

R. Dwane Betts, Brenda Cárdenas, Paul Martinez Pompa and Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi read. R. Dwayne Betts' Shahid Reads His Own Palm received the 2009 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books. Brenda Cárdenas is the author of Boomerang and From the Tongues of Bricks and Stones. Paul Martinez Pompa's My Kill Adore Him received the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi's work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review & elsewhere. Co-sponsored with the American Poetry Museum. $5 suggested donation.

American Poetry Museum
Sumner School
1201 17th Street NW
Washington, DC

September 16, 7 pm
Starshine & Clay: A Cave Canem Reading

University of Michigan's MFA Program in Creative Writing showcase's Cave Canem fellows Samiya Bashir, Rachel Eliza Griffiths and francine j. harris.

Work Gallery
306 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI

September 17, 7:30 pm
Cave Canem & Letras Latinas Redux

Teri Cross Davis, whose work has appeared in Torch & Gargoyle; and Gregory Pardlo, author of Totem, winner of the 2007 American Poetry Review/Honickman Prize, read with Brenda Cárdenas and Paul Martinez Pompa as they continue the Cave Canem-Letras Latinas intersection. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored with The Writer's Center.

The Writer's Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD

September 25, 3-5 pm
Recipe for a Jam Session

Cave Canem fellow E.J. Antonio performs poetry from her debut album, Rituals in the Marrow: Recipe for a Jam Session. Guest musicians Joe Giardullo, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Michael T.A. Thompson, Eddie Allen, Mark Taylor, Tyehimba Jess and Saco Yasuma join her on an improvisational journey through the blues. Introductory readings by Randall Horton, Linda Susan Jackson and Jacqueline Johnson. Free & open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

Cave Canem
20 Jay Street
Suite 310-A
Brooklyn, NY