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Caribbean literature

Interview – Antilles: the weblog of the CRB

13 June 2009

I count Nicholas Laughlin as one of my cyberfriends, though I think we really met over the telephone during the last CARIFESTA (such arts festivals are always, truly, such a waste of time, are they not? They make no connections, advance no careers, clearly, and they are so much a waste of money that we [...]

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Announcing tongues of the ocean

3 December 2008

 
tongues of the ocean is an online literary journal of Bahamian, Caribbean and related poetry. We’re an affiliate of the Bahamas International Literary Festival, but BILF isn’t responsible for what we decide to do (so don’t blame them!). We publish three times a year - in February, June, and October. We reserve the right to be picky [...]

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The Role of the Writer in Society

21 September 2008

On Thursday past, the organizers of the Bahamas International Literary Festival (BILF), a new-brand entity, so new it don’t even have itself a webspace yet, held a literary forum that served as a precursor to the festival. Six Bahamian writers were invited to present on the topic The Role of the Writer in Society. I was [...]

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CARIFESTA: Report from Georgetown

20 August 2008

Well, here we are in Georgetown.
After our late (LATE) arrival on Sunday night Monday morning, when we were met at the hotel by our liaison officer, we slept through a lot of the morning and didn’t get started until midday.  First things first:  we changed US dollars into Guyanese currency (exchange rate yesterday – Bank [...]

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CARIFESTA X

15 August 2008

In one week’s time, the Opening Ceremony of CARIFESTA X will be over.  
We’ll be in Guyana, the place CARIFESTA originated, celebrating the festival’s return to its birthplace.  Guyana stepped in when we in The Bahamas relinquished our commitment to host, and, despite having had only one year to plan the festival in, took the [...]

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“Red”

16 June 2008

Geoffrey Philp reads a poem here, called “Red”. It’s about being in between.
As Philp writes:
And while this poem does not adhere strictly to the form [the ghazal], it did allow me to play with the word “red,” which at the start of the poem refers to a biracial person or “half-caste.”
 
 

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National Poetry Month

25 April 2008

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, and am posting (irregularly) the poems I’m writing daily.

But I wanted to note that Geoffrey Philp has been doing a daily update on Caribbean poets all month long. You can find it here.

Today’s is particularly good: Anthony McNeill (Jamaica):
Somebody is hanging:
a logwood tree
laden with blossoms
in [...]

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He was the Greatest of Us All

17 April 2008

R.I.P., Aimé Césaire.
Cesaire’s best known works included the essay “Negro I am, Negro I Will Remain” and the poem “Notes From a Return to the Native Land.”
His works also resonated in Africa. Former Senegalese President Abdou Diouf said Cesaire led a noble fight against hate.
“I salute the memory of a man who dedicated his life [...]

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