Details from the Cave Canem site:
Established in 1999, this first book award is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional
manuscripts by African American poets. The participation of distinguished judges and
prominent literary presses has made this prize highly competitive.
2008 CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZE
Judge: Clarence Major
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Clarence Major is a prizewinning poet, painter and novelist whose first collection of poems, Swallow the Lake, won the National Council on the Arts Award in 1970. Author of 10 books of poetry Major was a 1999 Bronze Medal finalist for the National Book Award for Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998. Major’s poetry also earned him a 1971 New York Cultural Foundation prize. He is a contributor to more than 100 periodicals and anthologies. He has read his poetry at the Guggenheim Museum, the Folger Theatre, and in hundreds of universities, theaters, and cultural centers in the United States and Europe. In Yugoslavia he represented the United States in 1975 at the International Poetry Festival. He is also the editor of several landmark anthologies. Clarence Major lives in northern California.
Click here for details and a downloadable PDF of the complete guidelines.
Established in 1999, this first book award is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional
manuscripts by African American poets. The participation of distinguished judges and
prominent literary presses has made this prize highly competitive.
2008 CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZE
Judge: Clarence Major
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Clarence Major is a prizewinning poet, painter and novelist whose first collection of poems, Swallow the Lake, won the National Council on the Arts Award in 1970. Author of 10 books of poetry Major was a 1999 Bronze Medal finalist for the National Book Award for Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998. Major’s poetry also earned him a 1971 New York Cultural Foundation prize. He is a contributor to more than 100 periodicals and anthologies. He has read his poetry at the Guggenheim Museum, the Folger Theatre, and in hundreds of universities, theaters, and cultural centers in the United States and Europe. In Yugoslavia he represented the United States in 1975 at the International Poetry Festival. He is also the editor of several landmark anthologies. Clarence Major lives in northern California.
Click here for details and a downloadable PDF of the complete guidelines.
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