The Ragged and the Beautiful by Safiya Sinclair

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This week, Lana Moon reads Love After Love by Derek Walcott

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“Todos los partidos están partidos y son unos partidos” - Giannina Braschi

Braschi’s voice twists through Spanish, Spanglish, and English, unraveling the paradox of Puerto Rican identity—native and foreigner, nation and colony, wishy and washy.

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Beautiful find, Nobel Laureate Derek Wolcott reading his poem, "Love after Love." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUX... #poetrybelongstothosewhoneedit #poetry #poetryreading #caribbeanpoetry

A quiet meditation on distance, desire, and disillusionment. Guyanese poet Martin Carter explores the pull of the horizon—and the limits of what the present can offer.

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“When the dead return… they will come to you in dream and in waking… wanting and wanting and wanting everything you have to give.”
— Shara McCallum

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🌼 “I am becoming my mother / brown/yellow woman / fingers always smelling of onions.”
— Lorna Goodison

A tribute to the strength, labor, and quiet poetry of Caribbean womanhood. Goodison’s lines remind us how inheritance lives in the body, in gesture, in scent.
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Dog Ear Feature - Interview with Malika Booker - The Broken Spine Malika Booker is an academic, poet, and writer, who has previously been described as a pioneer of the present spoken word movement here in the UK. Her writing

Malika Booker discusses storytelling, identity, and the richness of Caribbean culture in her work.

📖 Read her interview:
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My poem, 1763.

The 1763 Monument in The Square of the Revolution in Georgetown, Guyana.

𝕄𝕪 ℙ𝕠𝕖𝕥𝕣𝕪 𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕤:

A few years ago, I was tasked with writing a #poem for an #EmancipationDay performance. I chose to write about Cuffy, a escaped slave from Guyana 🇬🇾 who left an indelible mark.

©️'𝟭𝟳𝟲𝟯'

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