INDIGO MOOR WINS CAVE CANEM NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS POETRY PRIZE
Second from right, Indigo Moor . Let me congratulate my friend and fellow poet Indigo Moor for winning the Inaugural CAVE CANEM NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS POETRY PRIZE. Northwestern Press, Cave Canem, this is a big deal. Below is the entire copy of the press release announcing the results: NEW YORK, NY (June 5, 2009) — Cave Canem Foundation, Inc., North America’s premier “home for Black Poetry,” is pleased to announce that Indigo Moor has received the inaugural Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for his manuscript, Through the Stonecutter’s Window , selected by Reginald Gibbons, Parneshia Jones and John Keene. Northwestern University Press will publish the collection in March 2010. Honorable Mentions were given to Remica L. Bingham and JoAnne McFarland for their manuscripts, What We Ask of Flesh and Acid Rain, respectively. Combining the efforts of the two organizations to celebrate and publish works of lasting cultural value and literary excellence, the prize i...