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It is as if there is a shadow of something whole interrupting the relentless clouds of snow swirling about us, and suddenly, the dark body…
Kamau Brathwaite (right) and Marguerite Laurent, attorney and performance artist. The Haitian-American legal activist met Kamau at the St…
Kamau Brathwaite's Words Need Love Too (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2000) was called "a felicitous example of the publication of a major…
(Email to the Editors) "[These are] three photos taken when I was a student at UWI, Mona, in 2006 and Kamau came to launch Born to Slow…
THE STATE OF exile is another theme that predominates West Indian writing, and it certainly permeates Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry. In the…
MAY THERE BE many more fruitful years, for Kamau Brathwaite has never stopped writing as the years have passed. May there be joy in a life…
PALM TREE SYNDROME: Colonial Installation: Plant Me, Please (Mixed-media drawing, May 2010, Private collection) The piece has many layers,…
I MET KAMAU (I was once chided for respectfully saying, “Mr Braithwaite”) in 1978. We were invited to participate in the fifth anniversary…
A REVIEW OF KAMAU BRATHWAITE’S THE ZEA MEXICAN DIARY: 7 SEPTEMBER 1926-7 SEPTEMBER 1986 (THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS, 1993) This is a…
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It seemed easy enough. Asked to provide a poem with links to Kamau, I immediately thought of one I had written around the same time I was…
ON MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015, Barbadian cultural icon Kamau Brathwaite turns 85. For the past three months, ArtsEtc has been calling out to…
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