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• New Film: The Island of Derek Walcott

  
  Synopsis
  
  Central to this documentary are two selected poems of Derek Walcott’s work. These poems are the guiding texts to Walcott’s thoughts and feelings about his life and his heritage as a Caribbean man. Firstly, there is the world famous poem entitled ‘Love after Love’. [...]
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• Save the Date! June 4, 2011: Ol' Time Sinting

  
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  "Set the captives free...

  My Author Page @ Amazon

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• New Caribbean Literary Prizes

  © George Lamming/For use only with OES article. Saltwater Collection
  George Lamming awarded in Cuba; Derek Walcott wins in Trinidad;Earl Lovelace leads in Guadeloupe
  GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 9, 2011)—In less than one month in 2011, it appears that an unprecedented number of literary prizes were [...]
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• New Book: This Strange Land by Shara McCallum

  
  This Strange Land
  byShara McCallum"These are poems of ruin and rebirth, of the joys and damage a mother knows...This is a marvelous collection filled with a lovely and evocative music. Highly recommended." —Library Journal, starred review
  
  “Jean Rhys could be the presiding spirit of this [...]
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• Derek Walcott Wins 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

  From Trinidad Express:
  
  White Egrets, his collection of poetry that has already won the TS Eliot Prize and was judged the winner of the OCM Bocas Prize poetry category, was chosen for the US$10,000 award last night, seeing off competition from the fiction and non-fiction winners.
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• Mum mum mum mah, P-P-P-Poker Face: Barack Obama

  
  President Obama @ Miami Dade College
  Okay, I was wrong about the President Obama’s poker skills.
  He ordered the "hit" on Osama bin Laden on Friday morning, toured Alabama, gave our commencement speech at Miami Dade College, and a day later, he was cracking [...]
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• Author Event: Christine Craig @ Dania Beach Public Library

  Christine Craig
  There was a distinct womanist tone in Christine Craig’s’ reading from Poems: All Things Bright & Quadrille for Tigers at the Dania Beach Public Library on April 30, 2011. Whether she was reading “Portland Morning” or the heartbreaking “Ofrenda,” the precision of her Ms. Craig’s [...]
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