You can watch the livestream of the service to celebrate the life of the late Professor Emeritus Gordon Rohlehr at the link below. This event is scheduled to start at 10:00 am on Saturday February 4, 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=P6-ecq…

Citadel, 1974. thepublicarchive.com/?p=5593

SUBMISSION CALL: We are open for submissions of non-fiction prose, with a particular interest in essays, both creative and academic essays. 40-150 pages (send a sample of 40-70 pages). Guidelines: brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

Welcome to Day 3 of Pamela Mordecai's (Pamela Mordecai) weeklong residency here at JWIL! Today Pam Mordecai reads the poem "Tell Me." She begins by telling us of Kamau Brathwaite's assessment of the poem. He describes it as "a Caribbean classic."

Welcome to Day 4 of Pamela Mordecai's (Pamela Mordecai) weeklong residency here at JWIL! Today we share Pam Mordecai's poem "Counting the Ways and Marrying True Minds." Our post includes two videos, one in which Mordecai introduces the poem and another in which she reads the poem.

“The point being that whenever the challenge is on, space/black culture in Jamaica (and the Caribbean/New World) has responded with resurrection and new forms of old forms, which indicates the vitality of nam despite the submergence and the fragmentation.” — Edward Brathwaite

It’s been four years since Kamau’s passing.

Welcome to Day 7 of our JWIL online residency focused on the poetry of Edward Baugh. Feb 4 is the anniversary of the passing of Kamau Brathwaite. Today we broaden the circle of mourning and memory to think about Edward Baugh and Kamau Brathwaite as fellow poets together.

Ifeona Fulani (Ifeona Fulani ) reads Edward Baugh's poem "Soundings (for Kamau Brathwaite)"

Always my favorite writer.... Kamau Brathwaite... His last sentence to me in an e-mail after Hurricane Maria was "Do you know what happened to the iguana?" About the 5-foot iguana weathering the storm in my backyard, safe in a broken tamarind tree. That caring... ❤️best writer

Carolyn Allen reads Edward Baugh's poem "On Being Mistaken for Eddie Brathwaite, There Being of Course No Such Person, and with Apologies to J. Alfred Prufrock"

WORDS NEED LOVE TOO by Kamau Brathwaite @ SPDbooks bit.ly/3rfhRqW | "No other poet, living or dead, makes us participants in, and co-celebrants of the liturgy of the word, like Brathwaite." bit.ly/3rfhRqW

Welcome to day #4 of Linzey Corridon’s residency concerning the life and times of the Jamaican librarian-critic, poet, and aesthete, Dr. Cliff Lashley.

Also testament of friendship between Kamau Brathwaite and Gordon Rohlehr.

The 10th annual Kamau Brathwaite Lecture in Cultural Studies will be delivered by Professor Curwen Best. Best is Professor of Popular Culture, Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of Language. Linguistics and Literature at The UWI Cave Hill Campus.

A Literary Friendship: Gordon Rohlehr and Kamau Brathwaite | NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2024 youtube.com/live/GM5HoHibP… via YouTube

Happy celestial birthday Kamau!!

A distance apart - one in spirit. Ashe Ashe!!!!! (View from the Door of No Return, Osu Castle, Ghana)

... dessas longas estradas ao longo da costa de Eleutera \ agora afundando em sua memória atrás de nós... Kamau Brathwaite & muito mais nas dicas de livros & artes do TTTTT: blogdotataritaritata.blogspot.com/2013/03/danny-… #tataritaritata #livroterapia kamau brathwaite remix engine