Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace Archives

Letter from the Editor

by ap | Jul 10, 2019 | Editorial, Editorial 3, Highlights 3, Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace | 0 |

In Reading India Now, a recent book examining new trends in Indian writing, Ulka Anjaria talks of...

Here Where Blossoms the Night

by ap | May 4, 2019 | Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace, Kei Miller, Poetry 3 | 0 |

Kei Miller Here where blossom the orchids, two hundred & twenty in variety. Some have adapted to bone dry places, to being...

Monologue of a Garbage Heap in Havana

by ap | May 4, 2019 | Highlights 3, Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace, Jose Antonio Michelena, Non fiction 3, Revisit | 0 |

Sometimes, I grow so much that I become a giant. I feed off paper, cardboard, fruit and vegetable peelings, scraps of food, bottles, cans, glass, fabrics, tree branches, tables, chairs, windows, tools, rubble; car parts, computer parts, kitchen appliances, fridges, phones, TVs; anything you can possibly imagine.

CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF OUTSIDE MEN

by ap | May 4, 2019 | Amilcar Sanatan, Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace, Poetry 3 | 1 |

5. On social media platforms the Outside Man is prohibited from leaving comments; when convinced to do so, he will leave a punctuation mark.

Gangster Paradise

by ap | Apr 30, 2019 | Fiction 3, Highlights 3, Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace, Lisa-Anne Julien | 0 |

“I finally in the back of the ambulance. It funny but of all the people I had to pay off left and right in my life, I never thought bout the ambulance services. Them fuckers took almost a hour to get to me.”

Two Poems

by ap | Apr 30, 2019 | Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace, Poetry 3, Summer Edward | 0 |

Summer Edward Gossip, from Albion Street ‘Gossip’ from the Old English godsibb, from God and sibb, meaning ‘relative.’ A godsibb was a godmother, godfather or sponsor; literally someone ‘related to one in God.’...

From the Wilderness, with Love

by ap | Apr 28, 2019 | Adam Patterson, Articles 3, Highlights 3, Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace | 1 |

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Concerning Bucks and Bacchanal

by ap | Apr 25, 2019 | Ayanna G. Lloyd, Highlights 3, Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace, Kei Miller, Non fiction 3 | 2 |

Kei Miller It was two weeks after Carnival was done and dusted away that the buck appeared. And I...

Three Strikes

by ap | Apr 23, 2019 | Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace, Maelynn Seymour-Major, Poetry 3 | 3 |

Maelynn Seymour-Major I am sitting having coffee across from a man who says You’re lucky to be from...

Nausea & Nostalgia

by ap | Apr 23, 2019 | Fiction 3, Highlights 3, Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace, Jessica Knight | 0 |

Jessica Knight Mek me tell unu a ting or dozen bout naming. Plenty Jamaican people dem know di...

Berkshire Road, Coordinates Unknown

by ap | Apr 22, 2019 | Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace, Poetry 3, Yashika Graham | 0 |

Yashika Graham They do not call the place Puss Hole like the people do, but a government name, a through-road clogged with shops and gravel passes leading to zinc roof illusions amid the trees.They do not call it an avenue, not...