'The last love of his was cricket. Anywhere in the world, if somebody is playing cricket. Gordon would be there.'

A Literary Friendship, a posthumous book launch and panel on the selected notes on the late #KamauBrathwaite by #GordonRohlehr .
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=GM5HoH…

'The wars they recorded were the wars they won...no one carried their writings across a river on their head...or sewn into the precious fold of a hem.' #DionneBrand reads from her book, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems.

youtube.com/watch?v=0n_zBZ…

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'To live in paradise is to be reminded how little you can afford it.'

Safiya Sinclair explores the dark ironies of island life in a reading from How To Say Babylon (Winner, OCM Bocas Prize for Nonfiction).

Take Two is LIVE: youtube.com/watch?v=QJ2kUJ…
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We are LIVE:
Acclaimed author #DionneBrand sits across from Shivanee Ramlochan Novel Niche 🫒 to talk literary commitment.

Tune in youtube.com/watch?v=0n_zBZ… or catch the rest of our lineup bocaslitfest.com/programme

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New today is Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond by Oneka LaBennett. This book exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana.

Great event called “The Politics of Friendship” Intellectual Publics last night.

“Academics lead with the argument and creative writers lead with stories.” — Salamishah Tillet (she/her)

“I am always trying to figure out better ways to tell the story.” — hua hsu

I wish I was in DC for this Dionne Brand event. If you're in the DMV or Georgetown area, go!

A few of my favorites from the “Faith Ringgold: American People” exhibit at the New Museum in 2022. May she rest in peace.

Tonight!
'The Politics of Friendship: On Muses, Audiences, and the Art of Public Writing'
with Hua Hsu and Salamishah Tillet
at The Graduate Center in the Skylight Room (9100)
Free and open to all!
The Graduate Center hua hsu Salamishah Tillet (she/her)

'[Writing] has has given me enormous joy.' -- Maryse Condé via The Guardian
theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

'Can the institutions of a fragile democracy keep large corporations in check? And what kind of future is Guyana promising its citizens as it places bets on commodities that much of the world is vowing to make obsolete?'
nytimes.com/2024/03/30/hea…

Easter miracle! Bye, Duke! #MarchMadness

'After [Bryan] Stevenson surveyed the global range of memorial architecture, he realized that America needed language and story. Art was useful, too, as a handmaiden to the urgent problem of narrative.' -- doreen st. félix via The New Yorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Laurie R. Lambert presenting on Comrade Sister at The Scholar and Feminist Conference BCRW

Toni Morrison’s The Source of Self-Regard was published as Mouth Full of Blood in the UK. Loved seeing this version of the book in Waterstones in London.

“Every day you wake up and there’s something trying to break your heart.”

At the Full and Change of the Moon, Dionne Brand

'For better or worse, we continually reach back for [James] Baldwin’s words, for they never fail, however liberally applied, to satisfy the moment.' -- Kelli Weston via The Nation
thenation.com/article/cultur…

“Keep Your Own Counsel”: Talking Octavia E. Butler with Lynell George | Sasha Ann Panaram
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