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• Book Review: Legba’s Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic

  
  
  
  Perhaps the single most perplexing issue in the discussion African Atlantic aesthetics is the cultural connection among the African peoples who survived the Middle Passage. Drawing on the scholarship of Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, and Kamau Brathwaite, Dr. Heather Russell in Legba’s [...]
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• Faculty in Print @ Miami Dade College: Geoffrey Philp

  
  Geoffrey Philp, chair of the college-prep department at North Campus, has published an essay, “My Favorite Florida Place,” in the spring issue of Forum, the official magazine of the Florida Humanities Council. His article blends his family’s biography with the history of the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk.
   
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• Book Launch: Dog-Heart @ Bookophilia, March 26, 2010

  “Dog-Heart –the tale of a child caught in the clash between the two Jamaicas.”
  Diana McCaulay, former newspaper columnist and well-known environmental activist has turned a new page in her career with the 2010 release of her first novel Dog-Heart. Published by Peepal Tree Press, who has [...]
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• "My Favorite Florida Place" @ Florida Forum

  MY FAVORITE FLORIDA PLACEBy Geoffrey Philp 
  
  We were two college kids—sea-crossed lovers from Colombia and Jamaica—and our families, divided by race and religion, were opposed to our relationship. We also didn’t have a lot of money, and we needed somewhere to go after the movies so [...]
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• "42, for Lorna Goodison" by Derek Walcott & the "Envy Test"

  
  
  
  
  In “42, for Lorna Goodison” published last week in The Guardian, Derek Walcott was up to one of his old tricks: a thematic variation on the trope of the landscape as text. 
  And, yes, I had to work through what Seamus Heaney calls the "envy" [...]
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• Book Review: Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women’s Writings

  
  
  
  
  Black women’s bodies have been the site of pornographic scrutiny for almost half a millennium. One of the most notorious examples of this scrutiny was Sara Baartman, better known in Western circles as the “Venus Hottentot,” who was “exhibited around Britain, being forced to entertain people [...]
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• "Marassa Jumeaux" @ tongues of the ocean

  
  
  "Man in White Pants" by Steve Cartwright
  
  I got a great birthday present from tongues of the ocean--the publication of my poem for Haiti, "Marassa Jumeaux."
  
  To read the poem, please follow this link: "Marassa Jumeaux."
  
  ***"Man in White Pants" [...]
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• I am Pi (2010)

  
  I am Pi truncated by 52 decimal points….
  

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• Fruit Trees For Haiti

  
  FAO is asking people to lend a hand to children in Haiti by donating a fruit tree that they can plant in school yards across the country.
  
  The UN food agency's Director-General, Jacques Diouf, will launch the "Fruit Trees for Haiti" initiative at a symbolic [...]
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• New Book: The Journey to Le Repentir by Mark McWatt

  
  
  
  
  
  UNIVERSE
  

  This is my song of the universe, of the past
  that is now and the future that is never, but
  mostly about a place and a mind inter-
  penetrated through a membrane of wonder,
  a dark fistula of dream through which flows,
  back and [...]

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