cave canem

[kah-we kah-nem, key-vee key-nuhm, kah-vey]

Latin.

1. beware of the dog.

Example Sentences

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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To Lynne Thompson, a former poet laureate of Los Angeles and the current board president of Cave Canem, therein lies the key conceit of the program.

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Most of all, though, Cave Canem is a reflection of the ethos everyone involved in it has brought to bear on the endeavor.

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

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