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Christine McVie RIP
Originally posted on songs from so deep:
Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac’s great keyboard player, and the singer and songwriter of a huge proportion of the bands hits, has died age 79 after a short illness. It’s difficult to sum up exactly how pivotal and yet strangely overlooked McVie was in the band’s success, so I’m…
Poems by Medieval Visionaries
Originally posted on THE POETRY PLACE:
“Though Love appears far off, you will move into its depth.” Hadewijch of Brabant (13th c.) from The Mirror of Simple Souls She is alone in love, the Phoenix alone. The soul is solitary in love, the soul has all and has nothing, she knows all and knows nothing,…
Haiti – No to the Intervention of Foreign Special Forces!
Originally posted on Caribbean Empowerment Blog:
How can Canada, a country that calls itself a so-called defender of human rights, agree to be part of the Core Group, an illegal association of ambassadors that is destroying an entire society, Haiti? Where is the respect for the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations signed by Canada in…
Long-Unseen Painting of Jamaican Man Is Identified as Rare Richmond Barthé Work
Originally posted on Repeating Islands:
[Many thanks to Veerle Poupeye (Critical.Caribbean.Art) for bringing this item to our attention.] Alex Greenberger (ARTnews) reports on the identification of Richmond Barthé’s “Seated Man in a Landscape,” which was painted during the well-known African American artist’s sojourn in Jamaica, from 1947 to the 1960s. [During this time, Barthé also worked…
living it down
You aren’t in my dreams anymore I’m thinking of new poems that you will never read I’m thinking how I could have done things things different I’m thinking I did the best I could I have this fantasy of bumping into you Telling you the whole story And it being easy Fool-child, hopeless romantic OpenContinue reading “living it down”
Reading The Blue Clerk, 169
Originally posted on Gukira:
“Verso 55” A suture can bridge time, turning encounter into ritual, ritual into something else. This is the holiest we ever were. I return to a Verso I had read before, though I had forgotten I read it before, until I reread it. But even if those Africans who were in…
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad (Vols. I & II)
Originally posted on Repeating Islands:
Duke University Press has just announced the two-volume work Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, to be published in October 2022. Volume I, by Tracey E. Hucks centers on Obeah; Volume II, by Dianne M. Stewart, is dedicated to Orisa. Description: Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad?is an…
On Death of Billionaire Oligarch Elizabeth Windsor – Gabby Is Right
Originally posted on Caribbean Empowerment Blog:
By Tee White A poem by Barbados cultural ambassador, Anthony ‘Gabby’ Carter, on the death of Elizabeth Windsor, queen of England has generated unwarranted criticism from certain quarters on the island.? The poem, reprinted below, points out some truths about the British monarch and her relationship to the crimes…
The Second Year
Originally posted on Gukira:
I was born on a Sunday. You died on a? Sunday. Coincidence can feel significant. That I was your kehinganda. I am. Some tenses still confuse me. You are not the past tense of being my mother. You are my mother. Tenses confuse me. I planted two varieties of pentas under…
Aida Rends 