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The February issue of sx salon is now available, featuring new poetry, interviews with Evelyn O’Callaghan and Caryl Phillips, reviews and a discussion on “Haiti: Living In-Between” with pieces from Colin Dayan, Martin Munro, Edwidge Danticat and Roxane Gay. You can access the issue through this link: sx salon, issue 8 (February 2012)—Introduction and Table…

This article by Simon Lee appeared in Trinidad's Guardian. Every day I use the dialect of lunatic hurricanes. I speak the madness of clashing winds. Every evening I use the patois of furious rains. I speak the fury of waters in flood. Every night I talk to the Caribbean islands in the tongue of hysterical storms.…

Today, Haiti is facing down a humanitarian crisis unlike any other. As a member of the Haitian diaspora, I cannot help resisting the poverty narrative.

Walking into the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on Fifth Avenue, I saw a flier announcing: “Aprann Kreyòl - Haitian Creole Conversation Hour.”

It took determination and patience for Geneviève Chevallier to complete the French translation of Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology News

The vodou priest, singer, actor and choreographer Erol Josué is on a mission to dispel the myths and misconceptions about Haiti’s musical religion

In order to promote the practice of literary criticism, the Ministry of Culture is organizing a major criticism competition for young Haitians aged 17 to 25...

Caribbean literature, literary works of the Caribbean area written in Spanish, French, or English. The literature of the Caribbean has no indigenous tradition. The pre-Columbian American Indians left few rock carvings or inscriptions (petroglyphs), and their oral traditions did not survive 16th-century Spanish colonization. The West Africans who replaced them were also without a written tradition, so for about 400 years Caribbean literature was an offshoot and imitation of the models of the col...

Friday, April 22, in the Gardens of MUPANAH, at the Champ de Mars, the Government paid tribute as part of the centenary of the birth of the prolific writer, Jacques Stephen Alexis alias « Compère Général Soleil »...

As a retrospective of his work opens at the Serpentine, we speak to the legendary artist about confronting the spectre of colonialism from the 1950s until the present day