Last week Saturday, I had the pleasure of reading Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories to the children at the Reading Learning Center at the North Campus of Miami Dade College
One of my biggest challenges has been to control what my wife calls my "Jamaican touch." Similar to the "Midas touch" where everything that the king desired turned into gold, everything I touch (people, places or things) begins to speak and act Jamaican.
"I see a lot of people who have never been to readings before," said Edwidge Danticat to an overflow crowd at Books & Books on Friday, October 12, 2007. "I also get nervous when I read in front of people I know," she laughed. It was hardly a statement that you'd expect from an international writer such as Edwidge Danticat. But then, again, Edwidge is anything but ordinary. And emotional and intellectual honesty have always been hallmarks of her work.
Fragano is the author of Class Alliances and the Liberal-Authoritarian State: The Roots of Post-Colonial Democracy in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Surinam, and he has also published poems in Focus 1983 and the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English.
When I read from Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories at South Miami Heights Elementary last week Friday, it was almost like the at Kara's Jamaican & Chinese Restaurant.
Junot Diaz seemed relaxed last night as he flipped through the pages of his long awaited novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and began his reading to a capacity audience at Books and Books
Jamaican author, Geoffrey Philp, will be reading from his recently published children's book, Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories on Sunday, September 9, 2007. The reading which begins at 12:00 noon will be held at Church of the Ascension, 11201 SW 160 th Street, Miami, FL 33157
South Florida's Jamaican community made preparations Saturday to rush donations and other relief to the island after Hurricane Dean sweeps over it today.
Educator and author Dr. Marva McClean will discuss her book of poems, Bridges to Memory, on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the South Regional/BCC Library, 7300 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines.
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