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KAMAU’S SPIDER

A curious lens dares to Encapsulate elusive Anansi Entwining his fate With CowPastor’s Swaying grass Banshee wind And the sweetest dunks on…

Sandra Sealy·May 8, 2015
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Life’s dust

I have begun to gather life’s dust: it’s not really visible, yet, but I can feel it when I touch myself—the texture of my flesh’s longing…

Mark Mcwatt·May 8, 2015
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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

ODALE’S CHOICE

The cast of Odale's Choice in a rare intimate interview with the play’s author, Kamau Brathwaite, following its debut performance in…

Linda Deane·May 6, 2015
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ORIGINS

I’m rising slowly from slabs of rock seeing beyond dreaming, for the first time. How long have I slept in this cave, its patina of…

Esther Phillips·May 6, 2015
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SHANGÓ (FOR KAMAU BRATHWAITE)

Count dem: one, two, three, four, five bullet— look like me did have chicken pox dat swell up all over me back. But dem neva know me woulda…

Geoffrey Philp·May 6, 2015
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THE WOODCUTTER’S DAUGHTER DRIVES HOME

Your father was felled by a giant teak one purple morning, in the damp of the forest’s aching mouth. Your mother hears it a mountain away,…

Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné·May 6, 2015
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FOR KAMAU: A QUIPU OF KEY MOMENTS IN THE 50TH YEAR OF OUR FRIENDSHIP

1966, June: our first meeting, at a Longman authors’ party. You were there, and Doris/Mex alongside, as Series Editor of The People Who…

Anne Walmsley·May 6, 2015
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RETENTIONS (A Tuk Verse Poem fuh Kamau)

1 Fingers cap ’e head an’ den interweave minus knowledge ah wuh it mean. “Boy, wha’ wrong wid you? Some- body in you flat dead?” De…

Anthony Kellman·May 4, 2015
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BRATHWAITE’S AFRODIASPORIC CONSCIOUSNESS: RECUPERATING “UNCLE TOM”

KAMAU BRATHWAITE'S CORPUS has been concerned with articulating a Caribbean cultural theory whose root conceptualization lies in history.…

Marie Sairsingh·May 2, 2015
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With Eyes Turned Skyward

I SAW this formation (Clouds; 2010) by chance across Bay Street’s Esplanade. Majestic and heavenly are what I thought, but I also felt…

Terris Scott·August 14, 2014
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Unobscured freedom?

I have type 2 bipolar disorder. This means that I am subject to at times thoughts and moods that have nothing to do with the external, and…

Linda Deane·January 17, 2014