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Poetry

We Talk about Hope While Clinging to Darkness

March 11, 2020 the first cloth mask rolls from my mother's industrial fingers, white strings flapping surrender it is my birthday the day…

Virginia Archer·May 14, 2021
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Poetry

My Pocket’s Full of Holes, but It Feels Like Someone’s Sewn Rocks in the Hems of My Jeans

i i put you in my left front pocket; you wore a hole through to my skin and left burn marks all over the landscape of my thighs ii i wrote…

Virginia Archer·May 14, 2021
Cherie Jones, the author or How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, published in February 2021.
News

The Beautiful and the Authentic: A Review of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

Photo Copyright © 2021 by Hachette Book Group. CHERIE JONES' DEBUT NOVEL, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, is set in an unnamed…

Ronald A. Williams·May 12, 2021
World Press Freedom Day Poster, May 3, 2021.
Blog

Vigilance: An Editorial for World Press Freedom Day

UNESCO poster reminds us there's still work to be done to protect freedom of speech and journalists, maybe now more than ever. RESPONSIBLE.…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 4, 2021
American poet Amanda Gorman reading at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden January 20, 2021.
Blog

Letters to Foreign Friends: A Good Day for Poets

Cloaked in hope: American poet Amanda Gorman reading at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden, January 20, 2021. Photo Copyright © 2021…

Robert Edison Sandiford·February 12, 2021
ArtsEtc
Fiction

Winning Words: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House 

Chapter 4 THEY ARE ADMIRING Baby that night everything changes. They are quietly claiming things about her to the soundtrack of Adan’s…

Cherie Jones·February 1, 2021
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News

A Review of Riff: The Shake Keane Story

Riff: The Shake Keane Story (Papillote Press, 164 pp., paperback, 2021) is the biography of the Vincentian poet-jazz musician Ellsworth…

H. Nigel Thomas·January 28, 2021
Annalee Davis, Barbadian visual artist, September 2020.
Studios

Annalee Davis: Wild Tings

Racquel Griffith: How would you define your art? Annalee Davis: My work sits at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 30, 2020
Past Issues

No. 25: The Gone Fishin’ Issue

Published: March/April 2009 Theme: The Gone Fishin’ Issue Cover: Word Power, Collage by Studio 102101 and ArtsEtc Contributors: Aguinaldo…

November 30, 2020
Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley addressing the UN in 2019.
Blog

Barbados a Republic: Three Times a Charm?

Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking at the United Nations in 2019. Barbados' first Prime Minister, Errol Barrow, declared in a December…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 30, 2020
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News

The 2020 IndyList

THE ArtsEtc Independence Reading List has reached a milestone: it's now in its tenth edition! The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 30, 2020
ArtsEtc
Poetry

Ode to the Christmas Breeze

Dear one, when I recall how hot an ting this August did and den wid all de other nameless ting it had in all this covid You be most welcome…

Margaret D. Gill·November 30, 2020
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