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PREE 6 RUB-A-DUB-DUB

Saffy’s Song

SHARMA TAYLOR

I don’t tell CC mi going be a singjay, like Koffee. CC love to play ‘90s dancehall at home, she sey dem time music was “nice”. So, in between her gospel music, CC playing General Degree, Spragga Benz, Tiger, Terror Fabulous, Ghost, Baby Cham, Shabba Ranks, Sanchez and Pinchers.… Continue reading →

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

Riddim of My Life

LAFLEUR COCKBURN

“Dancehall is ah building, yuh see me? De riddims ah de main frame, and de artists ah de fixtures, yuh see me? De producers come like architects, and den de selectah ah de salesman, yuh see me?”… Continue reading →

November 19, 2020November 20, 2020

CLR Dub

CHE LOVELACE

I made this painting of a J’Ouvert morning on the Carnival streets of Port of Spain; and placed CLR James in the middle of it among the revellers.… Continue reading →

November 19, 2020November 20, 2020

SHEDDING

RICHARD GEORGES

A girl no more than twelve clattered up the four planked stairs that brought patrons from the beach to the level of the bar floor. Sweat darkened her yellow vest and beaded her forehead trickling down her temples. She wiped it away with the back of her hand and wiped it her blue jean shorts. She paused, her hand still pressed against the front of her pants.… Continue reading →

November 15, 2020November 25, 2020

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PREE 6

FICTION

Hummingbird Dub
Njelle Hamilton

Riddim of My Life
Lafleur Cockburn

Saffy’s Song
Sharma Taylor

Shedding
Richard Georges

ESSAYS

Strategies to escape the eyes of the state
Gervais Marsh

Dub: Rhythm, Rhyme, Roots
Tamara Belinfanti

POETRY

Cymande and Can I be a Queen
Sherese Francis

Upside Down Boat
Lelawatttee Manoo-Rahming

God save duh queen
Ide Amari Thompson

Douens
Chike Pilgrim

The Walk and Quarantine
Amanda T. McIntyre

My Lover
Maelynn Seymour-Major

Night Walk
Kay-Ann Henry

Doh Let Me Be Lonely
Celia Sorhaindo

The Makings of a Queen
kevanté a.c. cash

This Music in My Waist
Melissa A. K. McKenzie

Perspective
Jason Henry

Mi General
Randy Baker

ART-ICLES

CLR Dub
Che Lovelace

SOUND

Mosquito (dubCLUB poetry)
Gavin Blair

PREE 6 RUB-A-DUB-DUB

Table of Contents

ESSAYS

DUB: RHYTHM, RHYME, ROOTS

TAMARA BELINFANTI

At root though, dub is soul-work. Dub is wisdom. It provides a template, or if you make it your own, a dub plate, for how the stripped down and refashioning nature of dub qua art form actually has personal lessons for living a life that reverberates with Dub’s soul and consciousness.… Continue reading →

November 16, 2020November 20, 2020

Strategies to Escape the Eyes of the State

GERVAIS MARSH

Let’s not pretend that only poor people bleach because Uptown Susan looking browner these days too, using dermatologist approved creams to “brighten” her skin. But middle-class Black people build glass houses of respectability and everyone, my Uptown self included, benefits from the cultural production of poor Black people, freely adopting language, style and gestures.… Continue reading →

November 11, 2020November 24, 2020

POETRY

The Makings of A Queen

kevanté a.c. cash

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from he come out the closet in her tall plum heels,
wrists broken, hips sashayin’ with tied up bed sheets
draggin’ on the floor, i knew he was ga have a hard life.

… Continue reading →

November 16, 2020November 20, 2020

DOUENS

CHIKE PILGRIM

We’s Douens
weird
bend foot addendums.
Jealous of attention
dwellers in Douendom … Continue reading →

November 16, 2020November 20, 2020

The Walk/Quarantine

Amanda T. McIntyre

The culverts of June street converged
at a point on the corner where
the rum shop remained closed
until further notice as Belmont approached
the second half of the pandemic year.
Above the evening scene, the frame
expanded into a partnership between
the sky and the northern range
with tinsel lights of a settlement starring
beneath the constellation of a tenement.
I turned and began walking.

… Continue reading →

November 16, 2020November 20, 2020