Episodes

010 – Celebrating Cave Canem Part 2

For our season finale, we’re celebrating more Cave Canem poets to honor their 25th anniversary!! With performances by the poets Lyrae Van Clief-Stefan, Evie Shockley, Kevin Young, and Dawn Lundy Martin. 

Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.

Cave Canem has grown from a gathering of 26 poets to become an influential movement with a renowned faculty, high-achieving national fellowship of over 400 and a workshop community of 900. Cave Canem enjoys over 20 local, regional and national cultural partnerships, among them City of Asylum.

We’re featuring several amazing (and exclusive) performances from City of Asylum’s Cave Canem archive—We’re celebrating more Cave Canem poets in celebration of their 25th anniversary!! With performances by the poets Lyrae Van Clief-StefanEvie Shockley, Kevin Young, and Dawn Lundy Martin. Check out cityofasylum.org for more information on Cave Canem’s October anniversary show or our show notes at charlacultural.com for more information.

We’ll also get into prose poetry, heists involving money, what we’re reading, and some thoughts on The African Queen for the road!

A quick summary of what to expect…

  • Intro/Welcome
  • Celebrating Cave Canem
  • Invoking the muse: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon performes “Lost”
  • Karla and Adriana chat about narrative poetry and darkness
  • performance from Evie Shockley
  • performance from Kevin Young
  • performance from Dawn Lundy Martin
  • Karla & Adriana talk (not enough) about the performances, pork, and the impossibility of having to really explain what something is about
  • What Are We Reading?
  • Some thoughts on The African Queen for the road
  • Goodbye and outro

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Many thanks to Luis Alfonso for the music in this episode. Image credit to City of Asylum.

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