CaribbeanTales wants your stories!
Welcome to CaribbeanTales' special Calabash newsletter issue! »
By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: August 02, 2005
This month, we bring you exciting news from the Caribbean Literary Festival, Calabash, which took place this past May. CaribbeanTales was invited to participate in this one of kind gathering, and brings you video highlights from the event.
In this issue, we offer a review of Calabash, with video clips highlighting some of the powerful
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Feedback from our Readers! July 2005 »
See what our readers have to say about our last newsletter!
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: August 02, 2005
Our last newsletter brought us comments from many of you, congratulating us on our new project, Caribbean-Canadian Audio Books and the funding we have received from the Trillium Foundation. We also received many comments on Colin Rickards story on Ramabai Espinet's book, The Swinging Bridge. Please read more below!
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Huy!
That's great - Looking forward to a full sound celebration of the Caribbean in all its creole/patwa/patois resistance in english, spanish or french.
Nadine (Vancouver, BC)
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Caribbean Audiobooks,
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Resurrection, Kingston, 1980 »
Poetry by Kwame Dawes
By Kwame Dawes | Posted: August 02, 2005
After the year of cataclysm, the walls of this city
are scarred with green and orange hieroglyphs of hate,
the tragic lies of false prophets; the rubble,
the stones, the air still thick with last breaths -
800 blasted lives - and palms and bells, rods
and anthems strewn around, the detritus
of celebration we won't ever understand.
We have bled out our peace. Those nights
we trembled, remember? The righteous
and the fallen have fled. The city
is dusty, broken after years of neglect.
How we suffered for a dream, recycled
our
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Lines »
Poetry by Kwame Dawes
By Kwame Dawes | Posted: August 02, 2005
Lines
White lines
stretched on black
they wait in silence;
it is pre-dawn.
Above, the storm gathers;
this is a nightmare
drawn in fingers
stained with charcoal,
smudging away the flames.
They return stark
the white of the page
resisting the brush of dark.
White flames lick;
the village is eaten.
"Lines" is
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Passionate Poetics »
Calabash Literary Festival wows once again
By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: August 02, 2005
The heart of Caribbean storytelling beats wildly on three beautiful days and nights in Jamaica once a year.
The Calabash International Literary Festival was held this past May at Jake's in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, marking its fifth anniversary of bringing to life the diverse literatures of the Caribbean.
Founded in 2001 by novelist Colin Channer along with poet Kwame Dawes and producer Justine Henzell, the Calabash
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Reviewers wanted! »
Looking for a great summer read? Want to tell others what you thought of it? CaribbeanTales is looking for you.
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: August 01, 2005
Here at CaribbeanTales we have many books on our shelves by diverse Caribbean authors waiting to be reviewed! If you've recently read a wonderful tale by a Caribbean author, or would like to, CaribbeanTales would like to publish your story.
Some items from our bookshelf
* He Drown She in the Sea – Shani Mootoo
* What we All Long For – Dionne Brand
* The Heart Does not Bend
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