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Two Decades of
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Explore over 403 stories we've published since 2003 — poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and reportage.

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Features

THE QUESTION IS…

I DOUBT, KAMAU, you will remember this incident that I feel compelled to relate in this small tribute for your 85 years. I was browsing in…

Philip Nanton·May 10, 2015
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News

ALL CLEAR FOR PRODUCTION

CLIVE WAGNER CHECKS the light levels in the carpenter’s workshop while Matt Gray adjusts the tracks for his dolly. Sound engineer Robert…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 10, 2015
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Fiction

FROM EVENING OVER LUXOR

EARLY IN JANUARY nineteen t’irty-seven, t’ings change. It was tense befo’e, but it get worse now, an’ t’ings gettin’ real bad ’pon de…

Ronald A. Williams·May 10, 2015
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Poetry

THE PHILOSOPHIZING SLAVE

As thirst discourses best on water, and night is the expert on day, so is the slave an authority on freedom. The deepest questions about…

St Hope Earl McKenzie·May 10, 2015
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Poetry

DOS DAFFODILS (AFTER EDWARD KAMAU BRAITHWAITE)

Dere dey are, dem daffodils, out on de lawn wif dere heads bent like candle-snuffers making de light go out. Um serious, an you vas right,…

Nancy Anne Miller·May 10, 2015
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Poetry

MARY TELLING JOSEPH THAT SHE PREGNANT

Joseph, my betrothed, I don’t know where to start. I was into the red of this egg a long, long time before I did know the shell mash! And…

Pamela Mordecai·May 10, 2015
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News

GOLOQUATIE FOR KAMAU

“No woman no cry….” Song itches unhearing ears and laughter disconnects the murmuring breeze. Bob Marley sings, “Do you remember…?” And we…

Paula Ann Ellis·May 10, 2015
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Features

Roots, rock revisited

In 1996, Kamau Brathwaite brought a group of students from New York to Barbados for a week to experience first-hand his Mother Poem.…

Linda M. Deane·May 10, 2015
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News

BOCAS LITFEST 2015 ON BRATHWAITE

On May 6, 2015 3:46 AM, "Vladimir Lucien" wrote: For Kamau and all: a little rundown of those who weren't there about the Brathwaite…

Vladimir Lucien·May 9, 2015
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News

THE ROUTE HOME

KAMAU PLAYED A crucial role in returning me to myself, so to speak. I’d left Jamaica at age nine for Barbados. We are both—though of…

Martin Mordecai·May 9, 2015
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Fiction

FROM IT NOT ALWAYS BADLUCK (IN MEMORIAM FOR CHARLIE MATTHEWS)

I had an uncle named Charlie and anything electrical, mechanical that went wrong with a little solder there a piece of wire here, pliers or…

Marc Matthews·May 8, 2015
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Fiction

REVIEWING THE ART OF CHANGE

MOSTLY LATE IN June, mostly, when elderly flamboyas tie their heads with scarves of red flowers, or when I’ve slowed enough to stop and…

Kerry Belgrave·May 8, 2015
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