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An oldie but goodie: Kei deconstructs dichotomies

31 July 2011

Reading round the web in search of wisdom on/by Kei Miller (for this review that Nicholas has surely contracted hitmen to squeeze out of me), I found this, A description of the successful “page” or “sit-down” poet is, perhaps, someone who has typically published poems in a few major journals, who has a couple books [...]

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A poem from Mama Lily

15 January 2011

The Magic Mirror Tempts Lily’s White Daughter (1951) A reading of “The Magic Mirror Tempts Lily’s White Daughter (1951)”, one of the poems in Mama Lily and the Dead.

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BWSI 2010

17 July 2010

BWSI 2010! Bahamas Writers’ Summer Workshop 2010. First public meeting/discussion @ the Hub is ongoing. First – what? Panel? Reclaiming the Bahamian imaginal. Discussion about where we situate ourselves and how and how writing must be situated in the imagination of a nation. Commodification of the self – of the national and the personal self [...]

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Bahamas Writers’ Summer Institute

14 July 2009

You know, it’s about time I blogged about this topic. It’s been coming for a good long while, and now we’re in its third and middle week, and it seems to be going really really well. What is it? you ask. Well, I could give you a long answer, but I’ll spare you that. Here’s [...]

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R.I.P. Harold Pinter

25 December 2008

  How Pinteresque, to die on Christmas Eve. LONDON (AP) — Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. Pinter, whose distinctive contribution to the stage was recognized with the Nobel Prize for [...]

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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 [...]

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Some of my best friends

6 October 2008

are Swedish. And one of them read my last post, and commented.  Actually, she did so over on Facebook, where my blog posts are imported as notes, but I liked what she said enough to bring it back over here. Her point is that Engdahl didn’t mean cultural hegemony as much as he meant linguistic [...]

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Nobel judge: U.S. too ignorant to compete

30 September 2008

Now I’m not the biggest fan of the USA.   Let’s put it another way:  I’m not a blind fan of the USA, and a lot of what the US thinks is great about itself I would question. But never would I question the greatness of that nation.   The arrogance of this Swede, though, [...]

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J. K. Rowling’s Speech at Harvard Commencement

12 August 2008

On the benefits of failure and imagination. On failure: personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s [...]

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Signifyin’ Guyana speaks out on CARIFESTA

10 August 2008

Signifyin’ Guyana: Finally! Bahamian blogger, Lynn Sweeting (womanish words) says she’ll be participating in the upcoming festival of arts (Carifesta) in Guyana. Finally, somebody else (besides Ruel) who can lay claims to artistic talent has voiced a public commitment to doing something (ARTS RELATED!) for Carifesta. Okay, two down many to go. Yes, so it’s [...]

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