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Cover of Kamau Brathwaite's Liviticus: The first poem of the Burning of the Body and the Tearing of the Flesh... (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2017).

Lessons from Poetry: Complaint and Sorrow in Kamau Brathwaite’s Liviticus

WE HAD a close encounter in our house a couple months back. It was unplanned, unexpected and poetic in nature. With that casual,…

Linda M. Deane·December 9, 2018
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Writing the Caribbean Superhero Novel

for Stan Lee, December 28, 1922-November 12, 2018. Nuff respect. Nuff said. MY WIFE CALLS my novel And Sometimes They Fly “the Caribbean…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 18, 2018
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Keeping Track

Please visit YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/north42la & Twitter: @keepingtrack246

Robert Edison Sandiford·June 4, 2018
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The AE Blog 2010-2013

STAGE RIGHT, STAGE LEFT A BRILLIANT TWIST FROM ARTSETCBARBADOS.COM From the archives, our first blog: http://aestagerightleft.blogspot.com/

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 19, 2018
The National Stadium, Barbados.  Runners before the starter's pistol.  Photo by Steve "SD" Devonish, 2017.

On This Hideout Faintly, A Beating of Drums

Runners before the starter's pistol. But where are the drums? Photo Copyright © 2017 by SD. THIS RYHTHM is set before the collapse and…

Linda M. Deane·November 30, 2017
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FOR DEREK WALCOTT, 1930-2017

Derek Walcott, riding the waves. Photo Copyright © 2016. "…For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 17, 2017
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Hobby, Profession, Industry: On Being and Becoming a Writer

"The myth of the suffering artist is a myth. Suffering may inspire great art, but nutrition, sleep and security will take it from…

Karen Lord·January 29, 2017
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Taisha Carrington: “The Lynching of an Identity”

One young artist's social experiment links lynching, identity and the billion-dollar hair industry Hair—lots of women see it as their…

Adapted by Racquel Griffith from Commentary by Taisha Carrington·February 29, 2016
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The 2015 Indy List

For the fifth year running, ArtsEtc is pleased to bring its annual Independence Reading List. The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 28, 2015

MASTERS OF THE HYPA-VERSE: Kamau, Lil’ Rick and the nation-language evolution

This State of the Art originally appeared in ArtsEtc Issue No. 3, July/August 2003.

Mark Selman·May 14, 2015
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POETICS, REVELATIONS & CATASTROPHES

KB: One thing about catastrophe, for me, is that it always seems to lead to a kind of magical realism. That moment of utter disaster, the…

Linda Deane·May 14, 2015
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MEETING KAMAU

I FIRST MET Edward Kamau Brathwaite in the flesh in Toronto in 2005. I was attending a conference on the Caribbean at Ryerson University. I…

Cecil Foster·May 11, 2015