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• Bawon Samedi's Halloween

  
  
  
  
  
  I know you won't believe me when I tell you this. But you should. Your life depends on it.
  
  
  Last Halloween Bawon Samedi, who can take any shape he desires, left the tent cities in Haiti, was detained in Krome,' [...]
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• (for Anya) by Jennifer Rahim

  
  

  To a stage that rivals any brand of farce, a light–
  a young woman comes, a rainbow. No sign
  taken for wonders hitched to dead pasts,
  but witness of prophecy’s advent –Walcott’s
  new Athens. Her field, a runway stylin’:
  raiment as phenomenal as the [...]

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• New Book: Lantana Strangling Ixora by Sasenarine Persaud

  
  
  
  This collection is as much about love and people in and out of relationships as it is about origins and the process of estrangement. The lantana is a flower of South American origin, and the ixora of Asian origin. The lantana, a creeper that [...]
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• Singer/Songwriter Rosanne Cash Opens 28th Miami Book Fair International

  
  
  
  
  
  
  Miami, October 25, 2011 - Chart-topping singer/songwriterRosanne Cash, daughter of music legend Johnny Cash, will kick-off the 28th edition of the Miami Book Fair International (MBFI), presented by Miami Dade College’s (MDC) The Center @ MDC. As part of the Fair’s [...]
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• Celebrating the Global Oneness of Life

  
  [www.global-oneness-day.org]
  
  
  "Set the captives free..."
  
  Geoffrey Philp, author of Marcus and the Amazons
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• New Book: I Am Going Where I Belong

  
  
  
  From the Publisher
  
  
  Hans Lindor’s I Am Going Where I Belong is a stirring coming-of-age tale set amidst the backdrop of Haitian history.
  In the midst of a democratic presidential election, the victor will inherit a torn country which is battling a cholera epidemic—that has already [...]
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• Andrene Bonner to Speak at National Council of Teachers of English

  
  
  
  The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is pleased to announce that Andrene Bonner will be speaking at the 2011 NCTE Annual Convention.
  
  Bonner, of Mount Vernon School District, New York, will be presenting during the panel session, "MINING GOLD: THE WRITER," [...]
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• Call for entries: Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize

  
  
  Call for entries:  Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize Commonwealth Writers – a world of new fiction
  
  Today the Commonwealth Foundation made the call for entries for the new Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  The prizes are part of a new [...]
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• Occupy Wall Street & Marcus and the Amazons

  
  
  
  When I began writing Marcus and the Amazons, I never dreamt that I would live in a time when I would witness the confluence of a movement such as Occupy Wall Street and the revival of interest in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose [...]
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• Howzat! Mid-Day Thoughts of a Late Cut Artist

  
  
  
  By Geoffrey Philp
  I love to play cricket. Sometimes I like to think I was born with a bat in my hand. Or at least it seemed that way when I was growing up in Mona Heights, Jamaica. Many of my holidays were spent playing cricket with [...]
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