Cave Canem is a great environment for me to hone my craft as an African American Poet

I arrived 15 minutes early to my Cave Canem poetry workshop. It is located on the 3rd floor in Suite 301-A in a building that looks like a big warehouse with tall ceilings and big rooms. I love the ambience and the environment at Cave Canem. I know the workshop is going to be great after the first session. I feel happy I got in to this workshop this Fall ’15 and to the other workshop I applied to last Fall ’14. There are eight to ten of us in the workshop and that works. We all sit around a huge rectangular table and take turns talking or sharing. We are supposed to be reading poetry books while we’re taking the workshop. I’m reading Claudia Rakine’s Citizen and I also plan to read Jean Toomer’s Cane over these next seven weeks.