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KAMAU 85 – EDITORS’ NOTE

EXCERPTS FROM AN 85TH-BIRTHDAY EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE Quoting "John R. Lee" December 23, 2014: > Hi Rob > Your copy of Sent Lisi mailed…

Linda Deane·May 11, 2015
Antonio Martorell, Las Antillas Letradas, 2013, mural, 4’ 4” x 9’; woodcut and digital impression on papel (30 prints). Mural is composed of portraits layered over maps and fragments of literary text to form an A-Z of Antillean writers. Detail shows Kamau Brathwaite section of mural.

LAS ANTILLAS LETRADAS

Las Antillas Letradas, 2013, mural, 4’ 4” x 9’; woodcut and digital impression on papel (30 prints). The mural is composed of portraits…

Antonio Martorell·May 11, 2015

SOUL ROASTED LIKE CASHEWS…

“Bim(shire’s) best,” someone said. “Madness!” said the rest. The level lands of Barbados hide no one. You must take a stand. You forgot the…

Hilary Beckles·May 10, 2015
k85bloc-reasoning

FOREWORD TO KAMAU 85, AN ARTSETC SPECIAL

Poet is a craftsperson, oral or literary, ideally both, who deals in metrical and/or rhythmical—sometimes riddmical—wordsongs, wordsounds,…

Nailah Folami Imoja·May 10, 2015
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FINGER IN OUR EYE QUOTATION

“‘Barbados education is the best?/Then why, why so many expert in de town?’ …It reminds me of the same question, but clothed in the…

Austin Clarke·May 10, 2015
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ALL CLEAR FOR PRODUCTION

CLIVE WAGNER CHECKS the light levels in the carpenter’s workshop while Matt Gray adjusts the tracks for his dolly. Sound engineer Robert…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 10, 2015
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GOLOQUATIE FOR KAMAU

“No woman no cry….” Song itches unhearing ears and laughter disconnects the murmuring breeze. Bob Marley sings, “Do you remember…?” And we…

Paula Ann Ellis·May 10, 2015
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BOCAS LITFEST 2015 ON BRATHWAITE

On May 6, 2015 3:46 AM, "Vladimir Lucien" wrote: For Kamau and all: a little rundown of those who weren't there about the Brathwaite…

Vladimir Lucien·May 9, 2015
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THE ROUTE HOME

KAMAU PLAYED A crucial role in returning me to myself, so to speak. I’d left Jamaica at age nine for Barbados. We are both—though of…

Martin Mordecai·May 9, 2015
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FROM WHY WE WRITE: CONVERSATIONS WITH AFRICAN CANADIAN POETS AND NOVELISTS, INTERVIEWS

H Nigel Thomas: Some of your poems interrogate the way Western languages have sullied Blackness. I wonder whether you would like to comment…

Wayde Compton·May 8, 2015
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LET THE STORY TAKE YOU TO HISTORY

THE TIME WAS the summer of 1991. Kamau said to me, “Where are those Guanahani poems?” The place was the English Department of the…

Marion Bethel·May 8, 2015
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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