Since Nobel laureate and Caribbean poet and playwright Derek Walcott died Friday, remembrances have flooded in for the complicated but mighty writer, who captured the lush beauty of the Caribbean and ...

Six Caribbean poets from the Toronto/Southern Ontario region have announced the joint publication of Roraima, an anthology of poetry from emerging Caribbean Canadian writers. The new collection of 75 ...

Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, the titan who planted Caribbean poetry deep into our global literary consciousness, has died at his St. Lucia home today. Walcott was 87.

Selected from 252 applicants through an open call, these young poets hail from 10 different Caribbean countries including Tanicia Pratt, from the Bahamas; Cindy Celeste, from Barbados; Taimi Dieguez ...

BRIDGETOWN, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Internationally acclaimed Barbadian poet, essayist and historian Edward Kamau Brathwaite, whose prolific writings sought to assert the identity of Caribbean peoples and ...

More than 30 poets conjure island life-the sea, storytelling, food, nature and the experience of travelling away from home-in Under the Moon & Over the Sea: A Collection of Caribbean Poems, ed. by ...

Red Cabbage Picklez with Indian Chaat Masala prepared by chefs Matthew Webb and Anita Sharma. Miami is the backyard of the Caribbean and it’s National Poetry Month, so naturally there’s a convening ...

The Brooklyn Museum hosts a night of poetry in celebration of Caribbean works and artistry, with readings by three Cave Canem poets. Rico Frederick, Erica Mapp, and Camille Rankine (image via Cave ...

From 6 to 11 June 2023, ten young poets from the Caribbean participated in the 40th edition of the Poetry Market (Marché de la Poésie), held in the heart of the Latin Quarter in Paris, France. This ...

In 1998, Peepal Tree Press in Leeds, UK, published Wheel and Come Again, An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, selected by Kwame Dawes. By that time, the connection between poetry and reggae music had been ...