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Jamaican Literature Festival comes to Leeds

Jamaican Literature Festival comes to Leeds
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Saving African poetry from obscurity

An ambitious dream to bring African poetry into the international arena is doing more than just decolonising the canon.

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Saint Lucian poet Vladimir Lucien to be featured at CHM event in New York City

On Thursday, June 23, 2022, at 6:30 PM, Saint Lucian writer, actor, and critic Vladimir Lucien will read selections from his first...

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Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes. Ghanaian-Jamaican writer and poet Kwame Dawes is the author of more than a dozen collections of verse, including the critically-acclaimed "Wisteria: Poems from the Swamp Country." Dawes is also the author of numerous plays, essays and books. Dawes is currently a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the editor-in-chief of Prairie Schooner. A former Distinguished Poet in Residence at the University of South Carolina, he is the executive director and founder of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the director of the University of South Carolina Arts Institute as well and the programming director of the Calabash International Literary Festival, which takes place in Jamaica in May of each year. www.kwamedawes.com

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Now Read This

From the blog of Roger M. Kaye at The Times of Israel

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Justine Henzell and The Harder They Come

For anything associated with The Harder They Come, Justine Henzell is the go-to person. W...

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Justine Henzell and The Harder They Come

For anything associated with The Harder They Come, Justine Henzell is the go-to person. W...

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For anything associated with The Harder They Come, Justine Henzell is the go-to person. With the classic movie celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, she has a full plate of activities.

Hen...

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Jamaican writer Colin Channer

Colin Channer is the father of two children, Makonnen and Addis. He was born in Jamaica, and educated there and in New York. His most recent book (...)

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Virtual Literary Conference: Taking Care in Writing, Publishing & Building Community (Day 2)

Virtual Literary Conference: Taking Care in Writing, Publishing & Building Community (Day 2) - CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE: SCHEDULE, BIOS, PANEL DESCRIPTIONS
As COVID sweeps across the planet and through our lives, we continue to confront our vulnerabilities, both public and private. Hard truths about our nation are in sharp focus. How do we carve out purpose, chart a meaningful course, through troubling times that don’t seem to end?

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