100 years after its original publication in 1923, we have asked, What is the new edition of Jean Toomer’s enigmatic classic that we need today and what is a critical edition for this moment? What old ways of knowing can we learn from this book, and what new ways of thinking can we employ to perceive it and ourselves?

In celebration of Cane’s 100th anniversary, we are assembling Black thinkers and makers from across and between creative and scholarly disciplines to wonder at the book’s cosmology, to propose, speculate and imagine our place in the canefield, and to offer their insights as invitations to readers in the form of prompts, gestures, questions…calls to respond, each presented on a card, paired with a quote from Cane and an emblematic image.