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 The Cave Canem Poetry Prize | Get submission guidelines for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. |
| Established in 1999, this first book award is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional manuscripts by African American poets who have not been professionally published. The winner will receive $500 cash, publication, and fifty copies of their book. Winner, contest judge, and finalists are also featured in a public reading in New York City, co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. Winning volumes are published on a revolving basis by the University of Georgia Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, and Graywolf Press. Now Available | |
| A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering Poems by Dawn Lundy Martin Foreword by Carl Phillips "A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering has double-daring dual purposes: to repair the broken body and to break all bodies—the corpses of gender, identity, race, sexuality, and their worn behaviors. The body of language, its prescribed nonpoetry, and the government of all things that bully silence seek out their grandest, subtle performance here, as an abstract lyric violence scabs what we once recognized as written modes of experience so that the n/a/r/r/a/t/i/v/e heals its own progression balancing hope and hurt. I wish Emily Dickinson were alive to read Martin's radical and haunting prayer of what melancholy and butterflies become. A blurb is bloodless so this one clings to the back of this book for life-support like a small tick, made fatter and redefined by its necessary and reading-like transfusion of sucking. This is the first book of poetry to transform me in a black ass long time." $16.95, paper Recently published | |
| The Listening Poems by Kyle Dargan Foreword by Quincy Troupe "The intrepid, hybrid 'chronograffiti' of Kyle Dargan's The Listening bears the heft of its personal and cultural histories with linguistic inventiveness, humor, and lyric incandescence." Paper, $16.95 | Leaving Saturn Poems by Major Jackson Foreword by Al Young Finalist, 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry "Ultimately, Leaving Saturn is an homage to the inner-city ugly duckling, which, through Jackson's humanistic powers, is transcended into a swan." Paper, $16.95 |
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