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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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 [...]
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