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Cave Canem at The New School Presents: Natasha Trethaway and Metta Sama

Cave Canem, the premier venue for African-American poetry, presents an ongoing series of readings and discussions with their authors.

  • Natasha Trethaway is the 2012 U.S. Poet Laureate. She is the author of the forthcoming book Thrall (Houghton Mifflin). Her first poetry collection Domestic Work won the inaugural 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize and she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her 2007 book Native Guard.  She is also the author of a book of creative non-fiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Georgia, 2010). She is currently the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University as well as the Poet Laureate of Mississippi.
  • Metta Sáma is a poet, professor, activist, painter, collage artist, fiction and essay writer. She is the author of South of Here (New Issues Press, published under the name Lydia Melvin), a collection of poems, and her work has appeared several journals. She received her MFA in creative writing from Western Michigan University and her PhD in English with an emphasis in creative writing at SUNY – Binghamton.

Moderated by Cave Canem.

Sponsored by The School of Writing at The New School and Cave Canem Foundation.











When: Thu., Sep. 27, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Where: The New School
66 W. 12th St.
212-229-5108
Price: Free
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Cave Canem, the premier venue for African-American poetry, presents an ongoing series of readings and discussions with their authors.

  • Natasha Trethaway is the 2012 U.S. Poet Laureate. She is the author of the forthcoming book Thrall (Houghton Mifflin). Her first poetry collection Domestic Work won the inaugural 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize and she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her 2007 book Native Guard.  She is also the author of a book of creative non-fiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Georgia, 2010). She is currently the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University as well as the Poet Laureate of Mississippi.
  • Metta Sáma is a poet, professor, activist, painter, collage artist, fiction and essay writer. She is the author of South of Here (New Issues Press, published under the name Lydia Melvin), a collection of poems, and her work has appeared several journals. She received her MFA in creative writing from Western Michigan University and her PhD in English with an emphasis in creative writing at SUNY – Binghamton.

Moderated by Cave Canem.

Sponsored by The School of Writing at The New School and Cave Canem Foundation.

Buy tickets/get more info now