“Words are Weapons of the Strong”: An Interview with Nikki Giovanni
There’s So Much to Explore: A Conversation with Poet Angela Jackson
Poet Claudia Rankine on Wounds We Shouldn’t Forget
Make the Ordinary Extraordinary: An Interview With Colleen J. McElroy
There’s So Much to Explore: A Conversation with Poet Angela Jackson
So I Became a Witness: An Interview with Nikky Finney
Make the Ordinary Extraordinary: An Interview With Colleen J. McElroy
A Conversation with Amiri Baraka: Civils Rights, Black Arts, and Politics
Voices from Cave Canem: Carl Phillips
It Felt Like a Door Had Opened: An Interview with Cornelius Eady
We are Not Post-Racial: An Interview with Toi Derricotte
So I Became a Witness: An Interview with Nikky Finney
We are Not Post-Racial: An Interview with Toi Derricotte
It Felt Like a Door Had Opened: An Interview with Cornelius Eady
A Conversation with Amiri Baraka: Civils Rights, Black Arts, and Politics
Thomas Sayers Ellis: Keeping the Folk Tradition Alive
There’s So Much to Explore: A Conversation with Poet Angela Jackson
Sapphire on Precious’ Emancipation
“Cave Canem is a response to an on-going problem in American Poetry, not a solution. It emboldens some of us to challenge the assumptions some hold of the African American poetic,” says Cornelius Eady, a co-founder of Cave Canem, in his most recent interview at Sampsonia Way.
Sampsonia Way highlights its interviews with Cave Canem fellows and faculty over the past three years. For full interviews, click on the caption at the bottom of each slide.