Our Founder Steve Cannon
Bio
Steve Cannon founded A Gathering of the Tribes in 1993, at first as a literary magazine documenting the vibrant culture and work of contemporary artists and writers of the Lower East Side. The first issue (900 copies) was published in 1991 on a Xerox machine.
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By Patricia Spears Jones
A Remembrance by Katherine Arnoldi
By Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo
Portraits of Steve Cannon
Cannon’s infamous novel, Groove, Bang and Jive Around: Annette, the heroine of Steve Cannon’s underground classic Groove, Bang and Jive Around, is a black New Orleans teenager with serious family troubles and a recently acquired appetite for sex. In Cannon’s hands her story becomes a satire on every aspect of American culture: race politics, religion, and sexual freedom.