All ArtsEtc stories filed under Features.
40 stories
Runners before the starter's pistol. But where are the drums? Photo Copyright © 2017 by SD. THIS RYHTHM is set before the collapse and…
"The myth of the suffering artist is a myth. Suffering may inspire great art, but nutrition, sleep and security will take it from…
One young artist's social experiment links lynching, identity and the billion-dollar hair industry Hair—lots of women see it as their…
This State of the Art originally appeared in ArtsEtc Issue No. 3, July/August 2003.
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…
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…
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…
In 1996, Kamau Brathwaite brought a group of students from New York to Barbados for a week to experience first-hand his Mother Poem.…
In hot sun they spread their umbrellas over their heads, sharing it like a faith making the bright Beausejour heat bearable. Black…
BORN TO SLOW Horses is a complex collection of poems by Kamau Brathwaite that do not conform to poetic conventions at all. Unlike your…
2 If I am only a point in time, my land dispossessed, cleared, layers, in red sand, excavate life, bare tops of scarce trees confirm my…
I have learned each day is different, saddled, as it is, with fragments of reminiscences and long forgotten snippets of sad songs; or, a…
Page 2 of 4
