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Steve Cannon is an American writer and the founder of the cultural organization "A Gathering of the Tribes". He penned the novel "Groove, Bang, and Jive Around", which author Darius James called in the New York Press "an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transformed the work into an urban myth."

Cannon founded the multi-cultural interdisciplinary arts organization "A Gathering of the Tribes" in his home in the New York City borough ofManhattan's East Village neighborhood in 1991. The organization publishes a literary magazine and has now presented its fourteenth issue. The collective also hosts a gallery and performance space where numerous and exhibitions and concerts have taken place with notable artists and musicians such as the Sun Ra Arkestra, Chavisa Woods, Bob Holman, Ishmael Reed, Billy Bang, Max Blagg and David Hammons.