Join Cave Canem and City of Asylum/Pittsburgh as the two organizations come together for their annual collaboration in bringing an extraordinary array of poets to the city for an unforgettable evening! Accessibility Notes: -Virtual live stream available -ASL interpretation provided (in-person and virtual) -Internet Live Captioning Services provided (in-person and virtual) Internet Captioning Services: To view live-captioning of this event in a browser, visit https://www.captionedtext.com and input the confirmation number: 5521009 Please reach out to programs@ccpoets.org with any further accessibility questions or concerns for this event Tracie Morris holds an MFA, a PhD, and has trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Dr. Morris was the inaugural Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop before joining the Workshop as its first African-American tenured Professor of Poetry. She is a Guggenheim Poetry Fellow, a Cave Canem alumna, and former board member and a Master Artist of the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Residencies include Millay, Yaddo and MacDowell colonies. Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including THE ABSURD MAN, ROLL DEEP, HOLDING COMPANY, HOOPS, and LEAVING SATURN, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review. Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Her newest work, and first book of prose, is SOUL CULTURE: BLACK POETS, BOOKS, AND QUESTIONS THAT GREW ME UP (Beacon Press).