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Lasana M. Sekou
Lasana M. Sekou (born 12 January 1959) is a poet, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and publisher from the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. Biography Lasana M. Sekou has authored more than 20 books and is considered one of the prolific and multi-layered Caribbean poets of his generation. Dr. Armando Lampe writes that "he's considered the 'Walcott' of the Dutch Caribbean" because of his prolific output, the range of subject matter and unique literary styling, which often includes the use of Caribbean Creole languages, Spanish, French, and Dutch — sometimes in one poem. Sekou's titles, such as the critically reviewed ''The Salt Reaper – poems from the flats''Mary Hanna" The Salt Reaper: Poems from the flats by Lasana M. Sekou"(review), ''Caribbean Quarterly'', Vol. 55, No. 1, CARIBBEAN LITERATURE: "The Unity Is Submarine" (March, 2009), pp. 106–109. JSTOR. along with ''37 Poems'', ''Nativity'', ''Brotherhood of the Spurs'', and ''Hurricane Protocol'' have been r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard University
Howard University is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Established in 1867, Howard is a nonsectarian institution located in the Shaw neighborhood. It offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in more than 120 programs. History 19th century Shortly after the end of the American Civil War, members of the First Congregational Society of Washington considered establishing a theological seminary for the education of black clergymen. Within a few weeks, the project expanded to include a provision for establishing a university. Within two years, the university consisted of the colleges of liberal arts and medicine. The new institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callaloo (journal)
''Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters'', is a quarterly literary magazine established in 1976 by Charles H. Rowell, who remains its editor-in-chief. It contains creative writing, visual art, and critical texts about literature and culture of the African diaspora, and is the longest continuously running African-American literary magazine. Notable writers published in ''Callaloo'' include Ernest Gaines, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Octavia Butler, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton, Edwidge Danticat, Thomas Glave, Samuel Delany, and John Edgar Wideman. ''Callaloo'' is well known for connecting Black artists from different cultures and sponsoring upcoming writers. It has been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press since 1986 and headquartered at Texas A&M since 2001. History Charles H. Rowell initially conceived the idea for ''Callaloo'' in 1974 out of necessity for a Black South forum. Rowell was first inspired to create a Black South forum when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiqui Vicioso
Luisa Angélica Sherezada Vicioso (born 21 June 1948), better known as Chiqui Vicioso, is a Dominican poet, playwright, essayist, feminist activist and author of twenty books. Education and career The daughter of Maria Luisa Sánchez, a poet, and Juan Antonio Vicioso Contín, a composer, illustrator and also a poet, Chiqui Vicioso was born on 21 June 1948, in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. In 1967, at the age of 19, she left the country, along with her family, to study for her first degree, in sociology and Latin American history, at Brooklyn College in New York. She also earned a master's degree in educational program design at Columbia University, then went on to study for a semester in the administration of cultural projects at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After living abro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Nanton
Philip Nanton (born 1947) is a Vincentian writer, poet and spoken-word performer, based in Barbados. A sociologist by training, who also teaches cultural studies, he is Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham, and lectures at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. He has been a contributor on Caribbean culture and literature to journals and magazines such as ''The Caribbean Review of Books'', ''Shibboleths: a Journal of Theory and Criticism'' and ''Caribbean Quarterly'', and as a spoken-word artist has performed his work at festivals internationally. In 2012, he represented St. Vincent & the Grenadines at Poetry Parnassus in London. Nanton's published books include ''Island Voices: From St Christopher to the Barracudas and Frontiers of the Caribbean'' (2014), ''Canouan Suite and Other Pieces'' (2016), and ''Riff: The Shake Keane Story'' (2021). Biography Born in St Vincent & the Grenadines, Philip Nanton studied and lived in England between 1960 and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shake Keane
Ellsworth McGranahan "Shake" Keane (30 May 1927 – 11 November 1997) was a Vincentian jazz musician and poet. He is best known today for his role as a jazz trumpeter, principally his work as a member of the ground-breaking Joe Harriott Quintet (1959–65). Early life in St Vincent Born on the Caribbean island of St Vincent into "a humble family that loved books and music", Keane attended Kingstown Methodist School and St Vincent Grammar School. He was taught to play the trumpet by his father, Charles (who died when Keane was 13), and gave his first public recital at the age of six. When he was 14 years old, Keane led a musical band made up of his brothers. In the 1940s, with his mother Dorcas working to raise six children, the teenager joined one of the island's leading bands, Ted Lawrence and His Silvertone Orchestra. During Keane's early adulthood in St Vincent, his principal interest was literature, rather than the music for which he would become better known. He had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tishani Doshi
Tishani Doshi FRSL (born 9 December 1975) is an Indian poet, journalist and dancer based in Chennai. In 2006 she won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection due to ''Countries of the Body''. Her poetry book ''A God at the Door'' was later shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Collection. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Early life and education Doshi was born in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, to a Welsh mother and Gujarati father. She completed a bachelor's degree in the United States, at Queens University of Charlotte. She graduated with a master's degree in creative writing from the Johns Hopkins University. Career Doshi works as a freelance writer and journalist. She has worked with choreographer Chandralekha. Her short story "Lady Cassandra, Spartacus and the Dancing man" was published in its entirety in the journal '' The Drawbridge'' in 2007. Her poetry collection, ''Everything Begins Elsewhere'', was published by Blooda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamau Brathwaite
Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.Staff (2011)"Kamau Brathwaite." New York University, Department of Comparative Literature. Formerly a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, Brathwaite was the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry ''Born to Slow Horses''.Staff (2006)"Kamau Brathwaite." The Griffin Poetry Prize. The Griffin Poetry Prize, 2006. Brathwaite held a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex (1968)Staff (2010)"Bios – Kamau Brathwaite." The Center for Black Literature. The National Black Writers Conference, 2010. and was the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM).Robert Dorsman, translated by Ko Kooman (1999)"Kamau Brathwaite", Poetry International Web. He received both the Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships in 1983, and was a winner of the 1994 Neustadt I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lamming
George William Lamming OCC (8 June 19274 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He first won critical acclaim for '' In the Castle of My Skin'', his 1953 debut novel. He also held academic posts, including as a distinguished visiting professor at Duke University and a visiting professor in the Africana Studies Department of Brown University,Clarke, Sherrylyn"Black History Month: George Lamming", ''NationNews'' (Barbados), 13 February 2014. and lectured extensively worldwide."George Lamming is Chief Judge of the Inaugural Walter Rodney Creative Writing Award" , Walter Rodney Foundation, 15 February 2014. Early life and education George William Lamming w ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for ''Tales of the Out and the Gone''. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture. Baraka's career spanned nearly 52 years, and his themes range from Black liberation to White racism. His notable poems include "The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues", "The Book of Monk", and "New Music, New Poetry", works that draw on topics from the worlds of society, music, and literature. Baraka's poetry and writing have attracted both high praise and condemnation. In the African-American community, some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnival
Carnival (known as Shrovetide in certain localities) is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras. Carnival typically involves public party, celebrations, including events such as parades, public street party, street parties and other entertainments, combining some elements of a circus. Elaborate costumes and masks allow people to set aside their everyday individuality and experience a heightened sense of social unity.Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1984. ''Rabelais and his world''. Translated by H. Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Original edition, ''Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaia kul'tura srednevekov'ia i Renessansa'', 1965. Participants often indulge in excessive consumption of alcohol, meat, and other foods that will be forgone during upcoming Lent. Traditionally, butter, milk, and other animal products were not consumed "excessively", r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Lisa Allen-Agostini (born 1970s) is a Trinidadian journalist, editor and writer of fiction, poetry and drama. She is also a stand-up comedian, performing as "Just Lisa". Allen-Agostini has been a columnist for the '' Trinidad and Tobago Guardian'', writing both in Trinidadian Creole and in Standard English, and among other publications where her journalism appears are the '' Trinidad Express'', '' Caribbean Beat'', '' Caribbean Review of Books'', and '' Trinidad and Tobago Newsday''. She is the author of novels both for young people and adults, and her fiction and poetry have been published widely, including in '' Lightspeed'', '' Wasafiri'', '' sx salon'', ''Susumba'', ''Moko'', ''past simple'', and ''About Place Journal''. She is a contributor to the anthologies ''Mothership: Tales of Afrofuturism and Beyond'' (edited by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall, 2013) and '' New Daughters of Africa'' (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019). Allen-Agostini's debut adult novel, ''The Brea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean Review Of Books
''The Caribbean Review of Books'', or ''CRB'', is a literary magazine based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, reviewing books of Caribbean interest—by Caribbean authors or about the Caribbean—and publishing original fiction, poetry, and other literary material. It is the second periodical to use this name. The first ''Caribbean Review of Books'', 1991–94 The original ''Caribbean Review of Books'' was founded in 1991 by the University of the West Indies Publishers' Association (UWIPA) in Mona, Jamaica, from where it was published quarterly until 1994. Edited by Samuel B. Bandara, acquisition librarian at the university, the publication was intended to be "the complete source for Caribbean book news" (as stated below the masthead of Issue number 1, dated August 1991, and on subsequent issues), and combined book reviews with bibliographical information, interviews, and other features. When some crucial UWIPA resources were absorbed into the newly founded University of the West Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
