How It Feels to Turn Twenty Again

What’s in a number?  Art Copyright © 2023 by Akaila Armstrong and ArtsEtc Inc.

 

You say it's your birthday
Well it's my birthday too, yeah
The Beatles, “Birthday”

 

I ALMOST MISSED my own party.

Party?

Nah.  More like the entire birthday.

It was my business partner and partner in literary activism, Linda M. Deane, who had to point out the date.

“So…what are we doing about our twenty years?”

Say what?

When?

“This year.  It’s ArtsEtc’s twentieth anniversary.”

George Lamming, Going Home

George Lamming, 1927-2022.  Photo Copyright © 2002 by Ronnie Carrington.

 

HOW IMPORTANT is a book, any book?  To any one person, people, time, or place?

Passing On, Lifting Up: Remembering Horace I. Goddard

Montreal writer, educator and community activist Horace I. Goddard had a commitment to community first nurtured in Barbados.  Photo Copyright © 2020 by Kola.

 

HORACE I. GODDARD was to many a well-regarded Montreal writer.  Among his books were the novel Child of the Jaguar Spirit (2009) and The Long Drums (1986), a poetry collection. His short story “In the Light of Darkness” appeared in Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today (2011), edited by Cyril Dabydeen.

A Trip Well Made: for A.N., Karl and William Seymour

Barbadian spoken-word artist Adrian Green: following in the tradition of pioneering Bajan writers A.N. Forde, W.S. Arthur and Karl Sealy.  Photo Copyright © 2013 by Fresh Milk Barbados.