American Gods
Noah Klein’s tongue-in-cheek examination of the connection between the Wheaties box and the American dream.
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Every Time I Call the V.A., They Ask Me If I’m Suicidal
“It asks me again/if I’m suicidal and I scream over the soft hum of my refrigerator/that I am hoping I will live another twenty or thirty years
/and after that I’ll reconsider things…” Weekend poem, by Ron Riekki.
In celebration of Kamau Brathwaite
A special feature in celebration of Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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from ‘Islander’
“You should dance and so you should dance/ you turn and rinse long hands of rain.” By Irvin Desir, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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Brededeng
“The road at this hour, that late-night hour/ of road spread wide with silence; that car,/ careful and slow, lone sound of engine/ quarreling with itself…” By Vladimir Lucien, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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Excuse for form
“All I can do is warn: lacking the right/ form, the whole dark sea’ll come crashing your dam…” By Jane King, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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A Poem for Kamau
“You took me by the hand,/ your child nearing forty…” By McDonald Dixon, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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Sunday
“There’ve always been Sunday mornings like this,/ when God became young again/ and looking back you see/ that childhood was a Sunday morning.” By Kendel Hippolyte, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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For Kamau Brathwaite at 85
“From islands’ scorned syllables/ your horn lifted nations’ new tongues/ Castries to Kingston…”By John Robert Lee, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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The alter/native
“There is no other figure, in the history of Caribbean poetry, as massive as Kamau Brathwaite.” Vladimir Lucien’s essay on the enduring influence of a towering figure in Caribbean literature.
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