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News

HOW WE LOVE THEM

WES HALL, THE fastest fast bowler, 6'4", strong, loud, is beginning to totter. He says it is because of his accident. No doubt. Derek…

Margaret D. Kawamuinyo Gill·May 8, 2015
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Poetry

IF I WOZ A TAP-NATCH POET

“dub poetry has been described as…‘over-compensation for deprivation’” Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry…

Linton Kwesi Johnson·May 8, 2015
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Poetry

WATCH DE OL’ MAN

Wunna tink ol’ man ain’t special like he don’t got stars in he back pocket, too Like he can’t move like dese young boys fresh blood hot and…

Kelly Phoenix Chase·May 8, 2015
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Features

NAMES: FOR EDWARD BRATHWAITE

I My race began as the sea began, with no nouns, and with no horizon, with pebbles under my tongue, with a different fix on the stars. But…

Derek Walcott·May 7, 2015
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KOKROKO: FOR KAMAU BRATHWAITE

It is as if there is a shadow of something whole interrupting the relentless clouds of snow swirling about us, and suddenly, the dark body…

Kwame Dawes·May 7, 2015
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Poetry

IT IS NOT HERE

they say it is not here at this chance meeting exhausted in leaky craft. they say it is not here on this journey vacant blushing with each…

C.M. Harclyde Walcott·May 7, 2015
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News

MEETING IN ST MARTIN

Kamau Brathwaite (right) and Marguerite Laurent, attorney and performance artist. The Haitian-American legal activist met Kamau at the St…

Linda Deane·May 7, 2015
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News

SOME LOVE FOR ‘WORDS NEED LOVE TOO’

Kamau Brathwaite's Words Need Love Too (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2000) was called "a felicitous example of the publication of a major…

Linda Deane·May 7, 2015
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Poetry

THE LECTURER LADY

She says, assuming all of us Miami-ites as well as Anglicans, that those of us who were in church on Sunday August 23rd and not at home…

Jane King·May 7, 2015
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News

RIPPED JEANS (or the story I ought to write)

(Email to the Editors) "[These are] three photos taken when I was a student at UWI, Mona, in 2006 and Kamau came to launch Born to Slow…

Ishion Hutchinson·May 7, 2015
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News

FROM THESE TWO WORLDS: BRATHWAITE’S SEARCH FOR CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL WHOLENESS

THE STATE OF exile is another theme that predominates West Indian writing, and it certainly permeates Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry. In the…

Horace I. Goddard·May 6, 2015
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Poetry

WOMAN WITH GOLDEN APPLE (NO ORDINARY FRUIT) AFTER LOTTE KRAMER’S “BOY WITH ORANGE (OUT OF KOSOVO)”

A woman holding a golden apple in her palms has crossed the boundary, uncertain yet hopeful. She waits there, glances back at stony…

Dorothea Smartt·May 6, 2015
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