Ars Poetica: Canticles

 

for Esther Phillips, Poet Laureate of Barbados

 

“Yet why not say what happened?

Pray for the grace of accuracy

Vermeer gave to the sun’s illumination…”  Robert Lowell

 

Truth She Wrote — A Found Poem and Collected Thoughts on Toni Morrison

Barbadian writers share their thoughts and feelings on Toni Morrison. ArtsEtc lands the found poem "Truth She Wrote" in the process. Read on or click the writers' images below...

 

NOMMONNOMM

 

for Esther on her Poet Laureate 2018

Wherever it grows there is a rose/breathing

the sky has nvr been more blue

Heather Barker, Sonia S. Williams among 2017 Colly Winners

 

THE 2017 JUDGES for the 20th Annual Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award were DeCarla Applewhaite, Professor Jane Bryce, Ayesha Gibson-Gill, Dana Gilkes, Christine Matthews, Professor Mark McWatt, Esther Phillips, Chairman Antonio “Boo” Rudder, and Andy Taitt.  The following is what they had to say about this year’s awardees: 

Honourable Mention