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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
by tathianapatino 2007-10-26 03:26 anancy · florida · jamaica · jamaican · book · caribbean · caribbean-american · children · miami · writer · writing · family
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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.
by tathianapatino 2007-10-24 05:33 jamaica · jamaican · writing · story · caribbean · caribbean-american
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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.
by tathianapatino 2007-10-12 04:54 african-american · jamaica · jamaican · atlanta · georgia · book · walcott · caribbean-american
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The 5th Caribbean Creative Writers’ Residential Workshop sponsored by The Cropper Foundation, and organised in partnership with the Centre for Creative and Festival Arts, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, will take place from June 30th to July 31st 2008 in Trinidad and Tobago.
by tathianapatino 2007-09-25 09:56 workshop · publisher · publishing · writer · trinidad · UWI · writing · jamaica · jamaican · caribbean
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About seven years ago when I used to jog by Snake Creek, I saw this plant that had spilled its orphaned seeds all over the banks of the canal.
by tathianapatino 2007-09-24 05:48 jamaican · miami · plant · maguey · gardening
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I've decided to run a survey based on this quote by VS Naipaul in "Caribbean Odyssey":
by tathianapatino 2007-09-21 06:21 vote · poll · survey · naipaul · book · books · caribbean · jamaica · jamaican · trinidad · barbados · author
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I write for the same reason I breathe—because I have to.
by tathianapatino 2007-09-19 08:48 writer · writing · caribbean · jamaica · jamaican · miami · books · bookfair · book · author · fiction
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Avocado - July 2007 – Abolition special issue has been published and it contains one of my short stories, "Third Time," which I read at last year's Miami Book Fair International.
by tathianapatino 2007-09-13 03:07 africa · caribbean · writer · writing · fiction · miami · florida · jamaica · jamaican
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In Jamaica, we always have Marley singing, "No, Woman, Nuh Cry." But more importantly, there is always Miss Lou's voice, brimming with sunlight, singing "Evening Time" and her comforting laugh and adieu, "Walk good, yuh hear!"
by tathianapatino 2007-09-07 09:22 miami · florida · woman · writer · jamaica · jamaican
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"Boy, you soft!" It's one of the worst things that you can say to a Jamaican male. "Softness" in Jamaican implies a lack of sexual potency or lack of masculinity which is a serious character flaw in the macho Jamaican world.
by tathianapatino 2007-09-05 05:37 jamaica · jamaican · mordecai · miami · blog · caribbean · writer · writing
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