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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Anancy at Miami Dade College

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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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: A Conversation With Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik (Afrobella) is a Trinidad-born writer who currently resides in Miami.

by tathianapatino 2007-10-23 02:51 trinidad · woman · writer · miami · afrobella · african-american

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Anancy at Florida International University

Anancy weaved his magic at the National Achievers Society's closing ceremony at Florida International University.

by tathianapatino 2007-10-19 04:18 anancy · books · miami · writer · writing · story · stories · children

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: South Florida Writers Fete Mitchell Kaplan

You could feel the love in the room on Saturday, October 13, 2007, when over fifty South Florida writers turned out at the Miami Beach Regional Library to honor Mitchell Kaplan, the owner of Books & Books. It was truly heartfelt.

by tathianapatino 2007-10-17 04:21 miami · book · books · Kaplan · florida · author · writer

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"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.

by tathianapatino 2007-10-15 05:57 caribbean · danticat · haiti · haitian · miami · book · books · writer · writing · caribbean-american

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: A Conversation With Karla Gottlieb

Karla Gottlieb is the Director for Community Partnerships at the Human Services Coalition.

by tathianapatino 2007-10-10 10:45 miami · woman · writer

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Anancy @ South Miami Heights Elementary

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.

by tathianapatino 2007-10-05 03:03 anancy · book · books · children · miami · jamaica · writer · writing · caribbean-american · heritage

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Miami Honors Mitchell Kaplan

A mighty, mighty, mighty celebration is being planned on Saturday, October 13, 2007, at the Miami Beach Regional Library to honor Mitchell Kaplan.

by tathianapatino 2007-10-04 09:22 miami · book · books · writer · florida

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Dexter @ Books and Books

I have to admit that I was a bit scared when Jeff Lindsay began reading from his book, Dexter in the Dark, at Books and Books on September 26, 2007.

by tathianapatino 2007-09-28 04:46 Miami · novels · books · book · fiction · florida · mystery

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Edwidge Danticat at Books and Books

Edwidge Danticat will be reading from Brother I'm Dying at Books and Books, Coral Gables, on Friday, October 12, 2007 at 8:00 pm.

by tathianapatino 2007-09-26 06:34 haiti · woman · writer · miami · book · books

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Maguey Magnificus

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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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Twenty Five Years of Books & Books

Books & Books, the locally-owned, independent bookstore founded by Mitchell Kaplan in 1982, will celebrate its 25th Anniversary in October.

by tathianapatino 2007-09-20 12:47 miami · book

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: In My Own Words: Anthony C. Winkler

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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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Junot Diaz @ Books and Books, Miami

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

by tathianapatino 2007-09-14 18:53 caribbean · caribbean-american · writer · writing · books · book · fiction · florida · miami

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Avocado - July 2007 – Abolition special issue

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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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Happy Birthday, Miss Lou--2007

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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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: In My Own Words: Joseph McNair

O Şe Şango, which means in Yorùbá, “Thank you, Shango,” is my first novel and has been three years in the making

by tathianapatino 2007-09-07 02:55 african-american · miami · writer · writing · yoruba · africa · fiction · books · book

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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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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Anancy in Perrine

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

by tathianapatino 2007-09-03 07:55 children · miami · jamaica · jamaican · florida · book · books · anancy · writer · writing · caribbean · caribbean-american

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Jamaica Observer reviews Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories

If you’re not familiar with the name Geoffrey Philp, you should be.

by tathianapatino 2007-09-02 12:10 anancy · caribbean-american · caribbean · jamaica · jamaican · writer · writing · books · book · miami

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: A Shameless Plug for Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories

Grandparent's Day is on September 9, 2007, and there's no better way to celebrate than to give your parental antecedents a copy of Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories.

by tathianapatino 2007-08-27 06:05 "grandparent's · day" · "Grandpa · Sydney's · Stories" · anancy · jamaica · miami · writer · writing · book · books

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Hurricane Aid for Jamaica

South Florida's Jamaican community made preparations Saturday to rush donations and other relief to the island after Hurricane Dean sweeps over it today.

by tathianapatino 2007-08-19 16:53 hurricane · dean · jamaica · aid · miami · caribbean · caribbean-american

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Reading: Marva McClean's Bridges to Memory

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.

by tathianapatino 2007-08-16 06:51 jamaica · jamaican · books · book · caribbean-american · diaspora · woman · writer · writing · miami · florida

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Review of All or Nothing by Preston Allen

Allen’s dark and insightful novel depicts narrator P’s sobering descent into his gambling addiction. P, a Miami native, is a school bus driver and desperate gambler who spends his nights (and many of his days) in South Florida casinos.

by tathianapatino 2007-08-14 11:58 african-american · writer · miami · honduras · gambling · black · book · books · caribbean-american · culture · fiction · florida · novels · story

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Frank and Traffic School

Here's another of those sixty word stories. Of course, I don't think I will ever match the brevity of Ernest Hemingway's famous six word short story...

by tathianapatino 2007-08-10 05:07 miami · story

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Frank and the Tennis Ball

Ever since I learned about these sixty word stories, I've been fascinated by their economy. They are great writing exercises that work almost like haiku, and I've continued to learn compression without sacrificing the essentials. Here's one that I enjoyed writing.

by tathianapatino 2007-08-03 06:51 writing · story · jamaica · miami

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Summer Love: Miami

And summer's lease hath all too short a date. - Sonnet XVIII [May] When evening marches down Flagler...

by tathianapatino 2007-07-25 04:56 poem · poet · jamaica · miami · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: MIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL 2007

Between Sunday, November 4 and Sunday, Nov. 11, hundreds of authors from the United States and abroad will gather at the Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami for the 24th Annual Miami Book Fair International. Each year, the fair overflows with the top best-selling authors, and this year will be no exception. Diane Ackerman, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Beah, Madison Smartt Bell, Ross King, Edwidge Danticat, Diana Abu-Jaber, Nikki Giovanni, Francisco Goldman, Tom Hayden, Ha Jin, David Leavitt, Paul Krugman, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have already confirmed to attend the 24th annual Miami Book Fair International.

by tathianapatino 2007-07-19 05:51 book · bookfair · books · miami · writer · writing · college

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: In My Own Words: Andrea Elizabeth Shaw

My book The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women’s Unruly Political Bodies is a project that grew out of my long term interest in the cultural perception of large, black women’s bodies. Growing up as a fat black girl in Jamaica, I loved books and reading, and I always wondered why there were so few characters that looked like me amidst all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys novels that I voraciously consumed. When characters that even vaguely reminded me of myself, and I do mean vaguely such as Nancy’s black male butler (or was it her chauffeur?), turned up on the page, I read oh so closely to see what the world’s literary imagine was of me, or at least some aspect of my identity. By the time I began my recent book project, it was clear to me what question I wanted to answer: How is the large black woman represented in both literary and popular venues? How is she perceived? How do her race, size and gender intersect in her representation?

by tathianapatino 2007-07-16 08:43 african-american · americas · black · book · books · caribbean · caribbean-american · jamaican · woman · writer · writing · miami

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: A New Novel: Virtual Yardies

Well, Mad Bull, Georgia, and Leon I've finished it! And although my agent, Janell Agyeman, who has just returned from the book expo in New York, says that many of the publishers are still lukewarm--they say it's a novel about non-US people about a subject few know anything about--she's going to try anyway because Virtual Yardies is the first of it's kind in fiction--tell me if I'm wrong, blogosphere!

by tathianapatino 2007-06-13 05:40 book · novels · writer · writing · miami · jamaica · jamaican · author · caribbean · caribbean-american

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Reasonable Men Living in Unreasonable Times

As you can see, Caribbean people are not new to these shores, and they have had a tremendous impact on the lives of North Americans. The big difference between those early travelers and those in our time is the numbers have increased. Now, without going into the reasons why there is this constant stream of Caribbean people into North America, many of these Caribbean-Americans have influenced the "American Dream" of democracy and egalitarianism, and by their very presence they have highlighted one of North America's most troubling nightmares--the issue of race.

by tathianapatino 2007-06-11 04:34 caribbean-american · "Caribbean-American · Heritage · Month" · "Jamaica · College" · Jamaica · miami · americas · caribbean

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: What I learned while writing Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories

First, Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories is a gift to children and their families, especially the Caribbean-American children who don't have many books written about them. Here they are growing up in a landscape that neither they nor their parents can fully understand. The Caribbean-American identity a new frontier and nothing in the media have prepared them for this new reality. But what do we teach our children when we are trying to figure out the whole new array of options? What assumptions can we make? Should we make any assumptions? Let me explain.

by tathianapatino 2007-06-08 03:35 Anancy · africa · black · book · books · caribbean · caribbean-american · culture · identity · jamaica · jamaican · miami · month · heritage · novels · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION: GRANDPA SYDNEY'S ANANCY STORIES

In commemoration of Caribbean-American Heritage Month 2007, award winning author, Geoffrey Philp, will be launching his recently published children's book, Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories, on June 30, 2007. The reading which begins at 10: 30 am will be held at Kara's Jamaican & Chinese Restaurant, 8120 Pines Blvd, Hollywood, FL 33024.

by tathianapatino 2007-06-06 05:10 Caribbean-American · Heritage · Month · africa · americas · author · black · book · books · caribbean · family · fiction · florida · identity · jamaica · jamaican · miami · story · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Forthcoming from Akashic Books: All or Nothing by Preston L. Allen

Preston L. Allen's witty, charming, and very likable school bus driver, named P, is a desperate gambler. He has blown the hundred thousand dollars he won at the casino six months ago, but his wife and family still think he's loaded. P spins out of control on the addict's downward spiral of dependency, paranoia, and depression, as he must find ways to keep coming up with the money to fool his family and fund his growing addiction. The bets get bigger and bigger, until finally, faced with the ultimate financial crisis, he hits it really big. Yet winning, he soon learns, is just the beginning of a deeper problem.

by tathianapatino 2007-05-14 03:54 african-american · writer · writing · book · gambling · miami · fiction · florida

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Mystery of the Commonplace: Many Loves by Michael Hettich

"My small library,” as my wife likes to call it, has many books that I was forced to read in graduate school and that I’ll never read again, books that I’ve read once or twice and will probably read again, and a few that I read over and over again. Michael Hettich’s latest collection, Many Loves, is becoming one of those books that I am reading over and over again. From the opening poem, “Housekeeping,” to the closing “Joy,” Hettich’s evocative language draws us into the mystery of the commonplace.

by tathianapatino 2007-05-04 05:36 poetry · writer · florida · miami

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Real Fantasy: Barbra Nightingale @ BCC

And there is always her playful humor. For even when she's vamping on the D(ead) W(hite) M(en) of the canon, "A thing of beauty is a boy forever," her sense of the fantastic hovers over every line so that the real becomes woven into dream, into fairy tale, myth, and re-enters the body as poetry that is grounded in the body, "an ear lobe, toe, small tender ankle" ("Making Love to a Cannibal").

by tathianapatino 2007-04-11 07:57 woman · author · book · books · culture · florida · poet · poetry · poem · miami

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: We Media Conference @ University of Miami.

I’ve been invited to be a panelist next week at the We Media Conference at the University of Miami. The conference has two major themes: 1. Community: How can media and communications in a multitude of forms, produced or influenced by an ever-expanding multitude of sources, serve and strengthen the communities where people live? 2. Investment: In a shifting communications marketplace, how will investors, public and private funders or new formulations of social entrepreneurship pay for and sustain the civic enterprises of news and information? As part of the discussion, I'm conducting a survey about blogging and community. Here are some of the questions: Does blogging create community? What is your definition of a community? If you’d like to participate, here is the link to the survey: http://CTLSilhouette.wsu.edu/surveys/ZS59983 The survey will run until 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 7, 2007.

by tathianapatino 2007-01-31 13:00 survey · internet · miami · poll

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot

An Evening with Poet Malachi Smith, including a reading/performance by Smith and a showing of a documentary of his life, will begin at 6 p.m. on February 22 at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale.

by tathianapatino 2007-01-11 18:31 author · book · books · caribbean · dub · film · florida · jamaica · jamaican · miami · movie · poem · poet · poetry · reggae · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Podcast of Dawad Phillip @ Miami Book Fair, 2006

Dawad Philip was born in Trinidad. He is a poet and painter and cultural activist, as well as a journalist in the United States. He is the author of Invocations and his work has appeared in several anthologies, including, most recently, Poetry International’s English Language Poetry from Around the World, (2003-2004).

by tathianapatino 2006-12-21 04:48 art · artist · author · book · bookfair · books · caribbean · miami · podcast · poem · poet · poetry · trinidad · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Podcast of Lawrence Scott @ Miami Book Fair 2006

Lawrence Scott is from Trinidad and Tobago. He is the prize-winning author of the novel Aelred’s Sin (London: Allison & Busby, 1998), which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book in the Caribbean & Canada 1999. Night Calypso (Allison& Busby, 2004), his most recent novel, was short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book in Canada & the Caribbean and nominated for The International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2006 and was published in France as Calypso de Nuit in June 2005. His first novel, Witchbroom (Allison, 1992, Heinemann, 1993) was also short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Canada & the Caribbean, 1993. His short stories have been read on the BBC and have been anthologized internationally, notably in the Penguin Book of Caribbean Short Stories and the Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. He divides his time between writing and teaching literature and creative writing.

by tathianapatino 2006-12-13 10:04 americas · author · book · bookfair · books · caribbean · fiction · miami · podcast · poem · poet · poetry · trinidad · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: One Life, One Love

How do we make one life? How do we draw together all the disparate strands of our lives and make them into one seamless garment? These are the questions I ask myself whether I am trying to fill a blank page, painting a fence, or putting up drywall. How do I make this life, one?

by tathianapatino 2006-12-11 12:32 author · book · books · caribbean · christmas · culture · jamaica · jamaican · miami · poem · poet · poetry · writer · writing

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Caribbean Beat blog: Opening of Rituals@ Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami

“Without the grassroots support, we could not survive,” said Rosie Gordon-Wallace, curator of "Rituals" at the Diaspora Vibe Gallery , as she presented the artists at the opening of Art Basel week in Miami’s Design District.

by tathianapatino 2006-12-08 08:28 art · artist · americas · exhibition · basel · culture · florida · jamaica · jamaican · miami

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Podcast of Donna Weir-Soley @Miami Book Fair 2006

Donna Weir-Soley, author of First Rain, was born and grew up in Jamaica. She currently teaches at Florida International University. She is a poet and critic and has been widely published in journals such as Macomere, Caribbean Writer, Sage, The Carrier-Pidgin, Frontiers and in the anthology, Moving Beyond Boundaries. She was recently awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship for career enhancement.

by tathianapatino 2006-12-08 08:25 americas · author · book · bookfair · books · caribbean · florida · jamaica · jamaican · miami · podcast · poem · poet · poetry · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Podcast of Pam Mordecai @ Miami Book Fair 2006

Pamela Mordecai , author of Pink Icing, was born in Jamaica and wrote her first poem at the age of nine. She has published over thirty books, including textbooks, anthologies of Caribbean writing, children's books, four collections of poetry, and has co-authored a reference work on Jamaica. She has a special interest in the writing of Caribbean women. She lives in Toronto with her husband, Martin.

by tathianapatino 2006-12-04 06:28 americas · author · book · bookfair · books · canada · caribbean · dub · jamaica · jamaican · miami · podcast · poem · poet · poetry · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Podcast of Mervyn Taylor's,

Mervyn Taylor was born in Trinidad. He is the author of three books of poetry: An Island of His Own (1992), The Goat (1999), and Gone Away (2006), and a CD, Road Clear (2004), done in collaboration with bassist David Williams. About the poems in his latest collection Debbie Jacob wrote in her column in the Trinidad Guardian, "Lost in the cold and unable to return home to the tropics, the West Indians of Taylor's poems reach as far as they can: Florida." Mervyn Taylor lives in Brooklyn, New York. Here is an excerpt from a reading that Mervyn Taylor gave at the Miami Book Fair International on November 18, 2006.

by tathianapatino 2006-11-29 05:31 trinidad · americas · author · book · bookfair · books · caribbean · florida · miami · podcast · poem · poet · poetry · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: About Me

In 1990, I published my first book of poems, Exodus and Other Poems, and four other poetry collections have followed: Florida Bound (1985), hurricane center (1998), xango music (2001), and Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas (2005). I have also written a book of short stories, Uncle Obadiah and the Alien (1997), and a novel, Benjamin, My Son (2003) which was set in Jamaica during the turbulent eighties—a time of gang and class warfare, mass exodus, and the emergence of reggae, Rastafari and Bob Marley. I am currently working on a book of short stories, "Who's Your Daddy?" and Other Stories, and a novel, Zone of Uncertainty, which is set in South Florida. The major stars of the novel are a hurricane, a missing daughter, and a Rastaman—kind of Zora Neale Hurston meets South Florida and Jamaica.

by tathianapatino 2006-11-26 18:55 philp · americas · author · blog · blogging · blogs · book · books · caribbean · fiction · florida · jamaica · jamaican · marley · miami · poet · poetry · rastafari · weblogs · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Podcast of Joanne Hyppolite & Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas

The poems and the story in Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas reveal the grandeur of the Christmas story from the perspective of a Caribbean man, husband, father, and son. Except for marketing purposes, I think it’s unfair to label Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas as Caribbean Christmas poems, Caribbean Christmas book or even a Christmas book, but you gotta do what you gotta do. For as Keith Nurse pointed out in his lecture at the Miami Book Fair International, writers from the Caribbean do not have access to the vast philanthropic resources that writers from other cultures have and as he also argued, we have not developed the habits of first appreciating/ supporting our own talent. We’ll import before we buy locally.

by tathianapatino 2006-11-22 12:47 americas · author · book · books · caribbean · culture · Haiti · fiction · florida · haitian · jamaica · jamaican · miami · podcast · poet · poetry · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Caribbean Voices @ Miami Book Fair International

“There’s a Caribbean conference happening under the radar,” said Adrian Castro as the 23rd Miami Book Fair International began, and the continuation of the successful Caribbean Voices series under the guidance of Mervyn Solomon kicked into high gear. This year’s program featured younger writers such as Marlon James, established veterans such as Mervyn Taylor, and displayed the breadth of talent in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that has emerged from the Caribbean during the past thirty years. For whether it was Shara McCallum’s reminiscing about her family’s choice to leave Jamaica during the seventies, Pamela Mordecai’s elegies to a slain brother, or Deborah Jack’s celebration of motherhood, the tone of the presentations reflected the newfound confidence of the writers who’ve come a long way from the image of Brathwaite’s “homeless, harborless spade,” to adventurous journeyers like Dawad Phillip.

by tathianapatino 2006-11-20 06:04 americas · author · book · bookfair · books · caribbean · fiction · florida · jamaica · jamaican · miami · poet · poetry · trinidad · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Podcast of

Dean Sluyter in Cinema Nirvana makes the following observation: "But there are really two Christs in the Gospels: the kind forgiving Good Shepherd, and the vengeful smiter of men' (166). That quote was small part behind the inspiration for "The Day Jesus Christ Came to Mount Airy" from "Who's Your Daddy?" and Other Stories. For if this conflict exists in the popular imagination and conflict is the fuel for fiction, then I asked my self, what if the "authentic Enlightened Christ" came back to walk among men and chose Jamaica to stretch his legs? And then to complement the plot to the theme of fatherhood in Who's Your Daddy and Other Stories, I had to ask myself, what would cause this Jamaican Jesus to manifest himself in Westmoreland, Jamaica? Whom would he meet?

by tathianapatino 2006-11-17 10:20 americas · author · book · bookfair · books · caribbean · culture · fiction · jamaica · jamaican · manhood · miami · podcast · writer · writing

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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Podcast of Joe McNair's Reading

"Romancing the Goathead" was a commentary on the drinking/eating behavior of professionals (college professors) "clubbing" in a Nigerian university town. The town surrounding the university, in this case, Ahmadu Bello University was an urban village, with all the characteristics of a rural village in a town setting. Isi Ewu ( EE--SHAY--Woo) or goathead pepper soup was the draw at that time to lure people from the university into town to eat and drink and all of the other behaviors and enticements associated with a night out on the town.

by tathianapatino 2006-11-15 11:38 africa · americas · author · book · bookfair · books · culture · florida · manhood · love · miami · podcast · poet · poetry · writer · writing

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