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• PEN American Center - Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future

  PEN American Center - Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future:
  Short Stories: Past, Present, and FutureFriday, April 30Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York City3:30–5 p.m.
  
  With Preston L. Allen, Alex Epstein, Aleksandar Hemon, Yiyun Li, [...]
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• Buddha and Joyce: A Sestina

  
  
  Joyce or Buddha: A Sestina
  

  What kind of life must I lead in order to be happy?

  It’s the kind of question that Gautama and Joyce would have asked,

  But Gautama sat under a banyan for seven years and meditated

  Until he emerged, his mind and soul [...]

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• The Vistas of Caribbean Literature@ UWI

  
  The 29th Annual West Indian Literature Conference starts on Friday presented by the Department of Literatures in English, UWI.
  Special guests include Lorna Goodison, Shara McCallum, David Chariandy and winners of the Small Axe Literary Competition 2009 : Tanya Shirley, Ashley Rousseau and Monica Minnott.
  The [...]
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• "A Prayer for my Children" @ Lunch Break: A Poem in your Pocket

  
  My poem, "A Prayer for my Children" @ Lunch Break: A Poem in your Pocket
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• Five Questions With...Joan Cartwright

  
  
  
  1. Where were you born? Describe your current family life.
  
  Born in Kew Gardens, NY. My mom is deceased. My dad is 90 and living in West Palm Beach, where my brother lives, too. My son lives in the Bronx, NY, with his [...]
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• Kamau Brathwaite to Host the Best of CaribbeanTales Film Festival

  CARIBBEAN RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF THE BEST OF CARIBBEANTALES FILM FESTIVAL AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
  
  

  WHO:
  Celebrated Caribbean poet, historian and cultural critic Dr. Kamau Brathwaite; and Frances-Anne Solomon, accomplished filmmaker and founder of The Best of CaribbeanTales Film Festival.
  
  WHAT:
  A reception [...]

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• Book Review: Valeria's Last Stand by Marc Fitten

  
  
  
  You can take the writer out of the Caribbean, but you can’s take the Caribbean out of him. Even in the second generation. At least that was my impression after I read Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten.
  
  
  Set in post-Communist Hungary, Valeria’s Last Stand, [...]
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• New Book: Only West Indians by Fragano Ledgister

  
  
  
  Contrary to popular belief, the ideology of empire in the nineteenth-century British resulted in a number of West Indian Creoles who took the language and values of Britain’s supposedly liberal empire and turned them upside down. Where nineteenth-century British men of letters, Thomas Carlyle, Anthony Trollope, Charles [...]
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• "Anancy Song" by Geoffrey Philp

  
  
  Anancy Song
  
  

  Me name Anancy, watch me dance and sing,

  With my words, I make something out of nothing.

  When me laugh, “Kya, kya,” is not for no reason

  I will survive no matter what the season.

  
  

  From before time, I see the beginning of [...]

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• The 10th anniversary of Calabash: Video

  
  
  Calabash 2010 will be May 28-30th at Jakes in Treasure Beach. Here is the link to the first Calabash video on YouTube. The video is constructed around an amazing poem written by the incomparable Dr. Kwame Dawes in celebration of year 10.
  
  
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