The New School's Writing Program began collaborating with Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization promoting poetry of the African Diaspora, in 2001. The collection primarily contains sound recordings of public programming from the first decade of the partnership.

The collection consists of audiovisual recordings of events, including concerts, lectures, and an orientation, sponsored by Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate liberal arts division of The New School.

Audio and video recordings of New School convocations and related events.

The collection consists of one decade of sound recordings documenting guest speakers of The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program's Non-Fiction Forum. Speakers include major Anglophone non-fiction writers, including art and music critics, historians, memoirists, and journalists.

The collection contains audio recordings of students in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The New School reading their thesis work.

The collection consists of a little over one decade of sound recordings documenting guest speakers of The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program's Writing for Children's Forum.