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It’s serendipitous that this is the 25 th anniversary of Cave Canem. You can read a significant exploration of the organization’s history written by one of the early faculty members, Kwame Dawes, on the Cave Canem website. What follows is definitely not that. It’s more of a meditation on the ways we build community and what they might be good for while we’re all out here in the wilderness. Because revisionism aside, Black poetry stayed in the wilderness in the 20 th and early 21 st century. We look back and talk about the Harlem Renaissance as the major movement and it was for Black people. The work being done earned that distinction even as it was a curiosity for readers outside of our community. We look at the Black Arts Movement and ....