Mooring
SHAUNA M. MORGAN I reach for you, curled image, latched in the gulf of my belly, I pray that my body keeps you corded to me in blood. You are mine. I feel you in the ache of my breasts, imagine you resting there, little hands...
Read MoreAug 15, 2023 |
JENELLE SAMUELS I sweep in the dark of the morning, under streetlights, when Kingston is quiet, where the only thing on the road is a mongrel dog that keeps me company if I feed him. He will tell me through a rise in his...
Read MoreAug 15, 2023 |
MBALA MGABO from Spain Town to outer space clad in khaki and hush puppy shoes young boy with old man walk I hunt the Thursday-new comics from the magazine rack in Victory drugstore on Cumberland Avenue to that dark shop on...
Read MoreJun 20, 2023 |
Co-curated by the museum’s Senior Conservator Eveline Sint Nicolaas and artist Sarojini Lewis, the exhibition takes the June 5, 1873, docking of the ship Lalla Rookh in Suriname as its starting point and gives special focus to the lives of women and girls under Indentureship.
Read MoreJun 17, 2023 |
Miss Tara breathe life into the ancient texts of Hinduism. She was a walking Ramayana. A steadfast follower of Shri Raam. Her childhood is filled with instances of recalcitrance, rebellion. On Sunday, when I last visited her, she told me of how frankly she answered her commanding father, ‘You didn’t make me.’ She was telling her puzzled, reverent father, that she was not of his making alone, but of Shri Raam Bhagwan.
Read More THE CAY
Ethan Knowles
THE VENGEANCE OF MOKO
Gilberte Farah
PORK
Ryan Cecil Jobson
THE OLD GUARDS ARE CAMPING OUTSIDE
Alicia Valasse-Polius
LAUREL’S SECRET
Mikayla Vieira Ribeiro
THE GENERATOR OR UNLIKELY BENEFICIARIES OF THE TREATY OF BREDA
Montague Kobbé
FROM SPAIN TOWN TO OUTER SPACE AND OTHER POEMS
Mbala Mgabo
MOORING
Shauna M. Morgan
STREETSWEEPER
Jenelle Samuels
REWILDING
Luke Elliott
HOLY BLUES AND OTHER POEMS
John Robert Lee
DARK EXPOSURE: ROBERTA STODDART’S THE BERTHA ROOM
Isis Semaj-Hall
SURVIVING THE DREAM
Roberta Stoddart