Three poems
Behold Couva’s Sam Manning,
audio farmer and Caribbean spy,
splicing honey into singers’ mouths
throughout the Americas.
by ap | Feb 17, 2023 | GEOFFREY PHILP, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |
GEOFFREY PHILP For Scratch Filing past to offer respect to the remains of the giant who slept in a casket so small you would have thought it was built for a child still dressed in his red schoolboy cap and rings that bedazzled...
Read Moreby ap | Feb 16, 2023 | AMARA AMARYAH, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |
AMARA AMARYAH 1 you are medicine. you tell me, my head weighed down water dripping slick paths down my neck. i inhale, squint eyes, resemble someone 2 with dainty palms you weave strands back to their wildness detangling, i...
Read Moreby ap | Feb 9, 2023 | KEVIN REIGH, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |
KEVIN REIGH black apollo / head cornerstone I remember the blistered petal whispers of your lisp a slingshot seeking the smoothest stones a sniper peaking out from a parapet your slick words and syllables thick with the sulfur...
Read Moreby ap | Feb 9, 2023 | Kay-Ann Henry, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |
KAY-ANN HENRY And where have we found ourselves yet again? at the mercy of the land the air the water. I could run, but either way the sea is rising. Best we can do is use what will be left of the land— a palmetto fan for the...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Ide Thompson, Issue Two: Pressure, Poetry | 0 |
Ide Thompson In Our Caribbean —————————–Christianity Is another name —–for —————————–Death....
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Jannine T. Horsford, Poetry | 0 |
Jannine T. Horsford Days here when the sun doesn’t shine – it drenches. Today I walk from the Small Gate across Streatham Lodge Road under a sun doling out heat like a tap turned on: a hot pumping revenge. In the blaze of...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Nigel Assam, Poetry | 0 |
Nigel Assam Further from Empire than my predecessors, this language I use is mine too. The same sea they saw I have seen, and felt too, in the same way, its familiar salt stinging in the same wind crossing from the horizon they...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Letitia Marie Pratt, Poetry, Poetry 2 | 0 |
Letitia Marie Pratt dear husband: you are doomed to meander the earth alone but she will not have you. you’ve grown wary of scowling rivers that flow between thighs. waters scorch your tongue as your young crawl from my hips...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Poetry, Ubaldimir Guerra | 0 |
Ubaldimir Guerra Course Title: Caribbean Poetry Topic: Intertextuality in Caribbean Literature Duration: 2 – 75 minute class sessions Primary text: Kamau Brathwaite: The Voice of African Presence, Ngugi wa Thiong’o Supplementary...
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DWIGHT THOMPSON
Looking for Lagahoos
LYNDON NICHOLAS
The Vagrant, the Ring and the Pothound
KIRK BUDHOORAM
Don’t Go Under the Coconut Tree
LUKE ELLIOTT
Back Bush
KAMSI ARCHIPLEY
Peter 3:15
RACHELLE J. GRAY
Preludes
ANDRE BAGOO
Rhythmless & Sweaty in Kingston
DANA FLETCHER
Basin Tanka, From Memory
AMARA AMARYAH
Two Poems
ANIKA CHRISTOPHER
Rest in Power
GEOFFREY PHILP
Three poems
JUSTIN HAYNES
Two Poems
KEVIN REIGH
No Gods
NIGEL ASSAM
Ablution
KAY-ANN HENRY
Urban Portal: From dem time to NOW
GICELLE MAGLOIRE
Muffler burn
KAY-ANN HENRY