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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.

403 stories

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Poetry

WORKER CHANT

tell dem tell dem that dem cars with my blood in dem gas tanks soon run dry soon stop run tell dem tell dem that my nerves stretched…

Kendel Hippolyte·May 8, 2015
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Poetry

ON THE TONGUE

August burns the sea to galvanize. Breakers clamour at Las Cuevas Bay beneath the sheer green cliffs of El Tucuche, rising like that…

Lawrence Scott·May 8, 2015
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Features

PAGAN

In hot sun they spread their umbrellas over their heads, sharing it like a faith making the bright Beausejour heat bearable. Black…

Vladimir Lucien·May 8, 2015
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Poetry

TWANBLANN TÈ (TREMBLEMENT DE TERRE, OU LA SEISME)

I The earth trembled beneath Port-au-Prince and his faith in the Saints and the Spirits of his Ancestors trembled then fell, unnerved,…

George Goddard·May 8, 2015
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Poetry

ANTI-ESCAPOLOGIST

You have the same name as him. My conscript tongue has practice in bitter acrobatics, transitioning from close to close so often to…

Vahni Capildeo·May 8, 2015
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Fiction

FROM FIRE IN THE CANES

“THIS TREE IS the kill-tree. The leaves, the roots, the bark. Every part of it is poisonous. It does kill.” “You mean I go die?” “No, you…

Glenville Lovell·May 8, 2015
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News

FROM WHY WE WRITE: CONVERSATIONS WITH AFRICAN CANADIAN POETS AND NOVELISTS, INTERVIEWS

H Nigel Thomas: Some of your poems interrogate the way Western languages have sullied Blackness. I wonder whether you would like to comment…

Wayde Compton·May 8, 2015
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Poetry

EXCERPT FROM RHYTHMS (TO EKB: IN RESPONSE TO YOUR CONCERNED QUERY “WHAT RHYTHMS WILL WRITERS USE NOW?”)

VI roaring seas of cane rows whisper shouted echoes of Harding's reign are replaced by the chaotic clatter of houses heights and terraces…

Nailah Folami Imoja·May 8, 2015
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Features

Speaking Caribbean – A Review of Born to Slow Horses

BORN TO SLOW Horses is a complex collection of poems by Kamau Brathwaite that do not conform to poetic conventions at all. Unlike your…

Racquel Griffith·May 8, 2015
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Poetry

RAPTURE

i the devil leapt out of her dress, the w o myn w o m an fled ii the devil leapt out of her dress, she left it on side of the road iii he,…

Aurora Ferguson·May 8, 2015
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Poetry

RESTING SPACE

Slip me into ice-blue satin pajamas and close the lid Say I was wise in the guise of “little girl lost” Call down the rain and upon the…

Carolle Bourne·May 8, 2015
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News

LET THE STORY TAKE YOU TO HISTORY

THE TIME WAS the summer of 1991. Kamau said to me, “Where are those Guanahani poems?” The place was the English Department of the…

Marion Bethel·May 8, 2015
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