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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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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Kamau: A tribute from St. Lucia
An introduction to a series of poems, essays and paintings in celebration of Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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Night Errant
“So when the wolf/ rips the night open…/you deny, you deny,/you deny.” Poem of the Week (February 24), by Esther Phillips.
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Afrogotten
“too far away for words. some/ broken dreams…” Weekend poem, by Kamau Brathwaite.
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Incarnation
“Out of the creeping undergrowth of manuscripts/ words line themselves with the body of the page/ imaculately…” Poem of the Week (January 6), by John Robert Lee.
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Spotlight Poet: McDonald Dixon
“Like water, Art must find its level. It cannot be all things to all men.” In the week of his 70th birthday, McDonald Dixon talks to The Missing Slate’s Jamie Osborn.
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New York… Harlem 1939
“Nothing has changed, nothing will,/ it’s all about money and bombs, this century.” Weekend poem, by McDonald Dixon.
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Song for Gaboo
“You were our first star/ maestro of Broglie Street/ your piano flourishes cascading down the evening…” Poem of the Week (September 23), by John Robert Lee.
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Overseer: Detention
“…all the boys gathered in a room,/ unsettlingly quiet, half-asleep, making jets with homework-/ paper…”
By Vladimir Lucien.