CaribbeanTales wants your stories!
Welcome to CaribbeanTales' special Calabash newsletter issue! »
By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: August 02, 2005
This month, we bring you exciting news from the Caribbean Literary Festival, Calabash, which took place this past May. CaribbeanTales was invited to participate in this one of kind gathering,
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Feedback from our Readers! July 2005 »
See what our readers have to say about our last newsletter!
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: August 02, 2005
Our last newsletter brought us comments from many of you, congratulating us on our new project, Caribbean-Canadian Audio Books and the funding we have received from the Trillium Foundation. We also received many comments on Colin Rickards story on Ramabai Espinet's book, The Swinging Bridge. Please read more below!
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That's great - Looking forward to a full sound celebration of the Caribbean in all its
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Passionate Poetics »
Calabash Literary Festival wows once again
By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: August 02, 2005
The heart of Caribbean storytelling beats wildly on three beautiful days and nights in Jamaica once a year.
The Calabash International Literary Festival was held this past May at Jake's in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, marking its fifth anniversary of bringing to life the diverse literatures
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Reading reggae between poetry lines: Kwame Dawes »
He might not fit your common definition of a ‘star’, but every five-star rating Kwame Dawes gets for his work puts him right on a favorable path to becoming a galaxy on his own – literary speaking.
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: August 02, 2005
Few people, if any at all, could contest the portrayal of Kwame Dawes as the model of the post-colonialist poet.
Born 28th July in Ghana back in 1962, this poetic genius, whose full names read Kwame Senu Seville Dawes, grew up in Kingston, Jamaica in the Caribbean – a region which would
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Resurrection, Kingston, 1980 »
Poetry by Kwame Dawes
By Kwame Dawes | Posted: August 02, 2005
After the year of cataclysm, the walls of this city
are scarred with green and orange hieroglyphs of hate,
the tragic lies of false prophets; the rubble,
the stones, the air still thick with last breaths -
800 blasted lives - and palms and bells, rods
and anthems strewn around, the detritus
of celebration we won't ever understand.
We have bled out our peace. Those nights
we trembled, remember? The
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Lines »
Poetry by Kwame Dawes
By Kwame Dawes | Posted: August 02, 2005
Lines
White lines
stretched on black
they wait in silence;
it is pre-dawn.
Above, the storm gathers;
this is a nightmare
drawn in fingers
stained with charcoal,
smudging away the flames.
They return
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Words "Afire" »
See the video clip of Staceyann Chin performing at this year's Calabash Festival
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: August 02, 2005
“Imagination is the bridge between the things we know for sure and the things we need to believe when our world becomes unbearable.” - Staceyann Chin
Jamaican-born Chin is a full time artist, poet and activist, powerfully speaking about sex, culture, politics,
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Reviewers wanted! »
Looking for a great summer read? Want to tell others what you thought of it? CaribbeanTales is looking for you.
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: August 01, 2005
Here at CaribbeanTales we have many books on our shelves by diverse Caribbean authors waiting to be reviewed! If you've recently read a wonderful tale by a Caribbean author, or would like to, CaribbeanTales would like to publish your story.
Some items from our bookshelf
* He
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Searching for elusive Africa »
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: August 03, 2005
Manthia Diawara
This month we honour, rather, we are honoured to write about one of Africa’s greatest sons, filmmaker, scholar, worldly thinker and literary activist Professor Manthia Diawara.
A native of Mali (Bamako), West Africa, Prof Diawara left home on a
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Artistic Celebrations »
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: August 02, 2005
It was that time of the year again when writers, poets and book lovers from all over the world gathered to drink from the calabash of literary juice – this was time for the annual Calabash International Literary Festival 2005!
As in the previous years the vibrant event - held at Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth in Jamaica - offered a sumptuous line-up of live readings, stage performances and other special activities – very much in line
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AfroFest »
Africa's rhythm ambassadors ignite the stage
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: August 01, 2005
Once again, “Afrofest”, the premier African cultural event in Canada steamed through with spectacular performances on the weekend of July 9 and July 10.
Created in 1989 as a commercial venture under Highlife World to showcase music from Ghana and Nigeria, the annual “sounds from
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