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Una Marson: poems of a Jamaican literary pioneer

Una Marson (1905-1965) JAMAICA . J ust a lovely little jewel floating on fair Carib’s breast, A ll a-glittering in her verdue ‘neath a blazing tropic sky. M ust have been part of Eden, it’s so full of...

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Sensitivity and Strength: poems of Delores Gauntlett

Delores Gauntlett A Sense of Time . I drive past my father’s grave and past the place where I began. That swing-bridge to my childhood games is now a town to which I seldom return. There the...

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Frances-Marie Coke: poems of nostalgia / poems of insight, reflecting upon a...

“Washday by the River” by Jamaican artist Bernard Stanley Hoyes Frances-Marie Coke (Jamaica) River Women . Behind their barely-covered lips, The Whisperers of Above Rocks huddled in the no man’s land...

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Lorna Goodison: “Días del Bibliobús” (Bookmobile Days)

Lorna Goodison (born 1947, Kingston, Jamaica) Bookmobile Days . Reader 1 . The one who was pressed up against the door clutching the last book borrowed; book read by naked light bulb, street lamp,...

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Gabriel Bamgbose: Three poems

Gabriel Bamgbose (Ogun State, Nigeria) Three Poems Darkness When you peep Through the broken window Of your broken heart And all you could see is darkness… ……………..Brim darkness ……………………..Thick...

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KULTURA Filipino Arts Festival, August 5th to 7th, in Toronto!

. . . 2016 marks the 11th year for Kultura, which emerged from the youth-led Kapisanan Phillippine Centre for Arts & Culture – a small yet ambitious initiative based out of a store-front on...

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Earl McKenzie: cinco poemas del poemario “La hoja del almendro” / five poems...

Earl McKenzie (nacido 1943, Mount Charles, St. Andrew, Jamaica) El silencio es mi hogar . Si el oído es el último sentido que “va”, según dicen, entonces envíeme a la meta con El Canon en Re Mayor por...

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Fernando Brant & Milton Nascimento: “Heart is My Master”

Milton Nascimento / Fernando Brant Heart is My Master . Heart – this drum within, my sincerest friend, who has given me a love whose slightest tenderness will reach the Redeemer. Like a river that...

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Jennifer Rahim: poemas traducidos

Frantz Fanon (1925- 1961): escritor y revolucionario nacido en Martinica_autor de “Los condenados de la tierra” / French- Caribbean writer and revolutionary from Martinique_most famous for his book...

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Samuel Selvon: poemas traducidos

Niños jugando bajo de un guayacán o árbol tabebuia © fotógrafo santalucence Chester Williams__ Children playing beneath a yellow Poui tree_photograph © Saint Lucian photographer Chester Williams Samuel...

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