“You should dance and so you should dance/ you turn and rinse long hands of rain.” By Irvin Desir, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“There is no other figure, in the history of Caribbean poetry, as massive as Kamau Brathwaite.” Vladimir Lucien’s essay on the enduring influence of a towering figure in Caribbean literature.
An introduction to a series of poems, essays and paintings in celebration of Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“So when the wolf/ rips the night open…/you deny, you deny,/you deny.” Poem of the Week (February 24), by Esther Phillips.
“too far away for words. some/ broken dreams…” Weekend poem, by Kamau Brathwaite.
“Out of the creeping undergrowth of manuscripts/ words line themselves with the body of the page/ imaculately…” Poem of the Week (January 6), by John Robert Lee.
“Like water, Art must find its level. It cannot be all things to all men.” In the week of his 70th birthday, McDonald Dixon talks to The Missing Slate’s Jamie Osborn.
“Nothing has changed, nothing will,/ it’s all about money and bombs, this century.” Weekend poem, by McDonald Dixon.
“You were our first star/ maestro of Broglie Street/ your piano flourishes cascading down the evening…” Poem of the Week (September 23), by John Robert Lee.
“Take her by the hand,/ by the hair,/…lead her/ to the sea/ …the pinhead/ where, if she’s to dance,/ she’ll enjoy horizons.” By Vahni Capildeo, part of our Caribbean writers feature.