Callaloo celebrated its 30th anniversary with a conference filled with poetry and fiction readings, lectures, conversations, and panel discussions. Hosted by the university’s Center for Africana Studies, the conference launched the journal into the next thirty years. Participating creative writers and scholars who read and engaged in public discussions on writing creative texts and the culture from which they derive included Carole Boyce Davies, Lucille Clifton, Thadious Davis, Brent Edwards, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Thomas Glave, Farah Griffin, Trudier Harris, Yusef Komunyakaa, Wahneema Lubiano, John McCluskey, Mark Anthony Neal, Carl Phillips, Tracy K. Smith and Natasha Trethewey. The conference was co-sponsored by The Reginald F. Lewis Museum and The Enoch Pratt Free Library.