.jpg "Cave Canem Poets - Ian Haley Pollock, Derek Weston Brown, Khadijah Queen, Evie Shockley")
Iain Haley Pollock is the author of Spit Back A Boy, winner of the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Elizabeth Alexander. Pollock teaches English at Chestnut Hill Academy.
(www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/spit_back)
Derrick Weston Brown is the author of Wisdom Teeth (2011).He serves as poet-in-residence at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC.
(www.pmpress.org/content/article.php?story=DerrickWestonBrown)
Khadijah Queen is the author of two poetry collections, Conduit and Black Peculiar, which won the 2010 Noemi Book Award for Poetry.
(http://khadijahqueen.com//home.html)
Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry, the new black (2011)and a half-red sea. She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
(www.redroom.com/author/evie-shockley)
Recorded On: Sunday, December 04, 2011