cave canem

American  

[kah-we kah-nem, key-vee key-nuhm, kah-vey] / ˈkɑ wɛ ˈkɑ nɛm, ˈkeɪ vi ˈkeɪ nəm, ˈkɑ veɪ /

Latin.

1. beware of the dog.

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Example Sentences

With yearlong programming and two annual book prizes of its own, Cave Canem’s mission is best exemplified by those two weeks a year spent at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Pa., where the retreat has been based since 2003.

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Close to 30 years later and now a registered nonprofit, Cave Canem is able to offer free tuition for its annual summer retreat.

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What the opening circle offered and continues to offer Cave Canem fellows is the space to be fully, truly themselves.

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As such, Cave Canem prides itself on being a place where belonging and community are one and the same.

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“I won’t say that without Cave Canem I wouldn’t have been a poet. But it happened so early in my period of being serious about writing that I have no sense of what my writing would have been without it.”

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