Poetry

Girl Before Country by Cyndi Celeste, part of ArtsEtc's 20th Anniversary Chapbook Series.  Cover by Joshua Clarke, June 2023.Joshua
Two Poems from Girl Before Country

 

Blind Date

My Black
and my Caribbean
walk into a room
and the air is
still

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The True, True Mudda Sally, Illustration by Akaila Armstrong, 2023.
Three Poems

The True, True Mudda Sally.  Illustration Copyright © 2023 by Akaila Armstrong.

 

Love in the Time of Circular Chants 

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From the Archives: Word (on teaching a forty-year-old man to read)

 

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Last Saturday Night

 

 

Chorus

Saturday night, it was Saturday night

Saturday night, last Saturday night

 

VS 1

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Art by Gary Jerome Jones, pen and colour markers on card stock, 2022.
Two Poems

 

Subconscious Individuality  

A rocking horse soothes the internal rhythm 

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House in Castries, Saint Lucia.  Photo Copyright © 2022 by John Robert Lee.
Poems for Kendel @ 70

A City Affair
(for the Saint Lucian poets)

“Don’t you know I love you but am hopeless
at fixing the rain?” – Derek Walcott

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The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Winning Words: Resurrection 1

 

 

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The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Winning Words: If Only on the Outside/If Only on the Inside

 

 

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The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Winning Words: Exhaustive Listening

 

 

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The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Winning Words: Dear White People

 

 

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