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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The current issue of JWIL includes 5 book reviews. Check out the most recent issue of of the journal at: www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Kezia Page's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "An people was talking. How Miss Velma would do dis an seh dat. How she aisercht dem language and give it back to dem stylish and strong. How she teach dem. And tears was flowing."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Ronald Cummings's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "But among the biggest lessons that I learned from Velma (and one of the things I appreciated most about her) was her insistence on appreciating beauty: the beauty of life,"

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Tanya Shirley's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ ".. Velma walking out of the room the last time I saw her: back straight, heading for the exit, stopping to look back, a quick scan of the room, then turning and marching on"

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Writers from the Drawing Room Project in Jamaica pay tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal Writers from the Drawing Room Project in Jamaica pay tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

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Salisha Stanley, “Spirit”, 31 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2024. Photographed by Shaun Rambaran.

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Michael A Bucknor's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "Velma, the great teacher, has quietly offered me a pedagogy of care: to show concern for others, to stay in touch, to offer support, to be kind..."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Alison Donnell's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "Now that Velma has passed and I will no longer be enriched by the fizz of her in-person energetic brilliance, I am grateful to be able to turn to the volumes she so modestly left"

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Alecia McKenzie's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "Velma and I saw each other at the Calabash Literary Festival. In 2012, I took photos of her and Linton Kwesi Johnson"

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Amina Blackwood-Meeks's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "We are inspired by Velma’s work as an explorer of ideas on the issues of nationhood and identity. Her words live on in us"

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Evelyn O'Callaghan's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL. www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "Her energy was famous, and her zest for life infectious. I remember dancing along with her and Lixie to Rita Marley’s “One Draw."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Merle Collins's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of JWIL. www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "Velma communicated warmth by the texture of her smile, the tone of her words, her entire manner of being. I thought of her as friend; colleague; sister writer..."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Joan Anim-Addo's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "We would meet from time to time in London, in Kingston, and, perhaps curiously, in Trento, Italy..."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Maureen Warner-Lewis's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "No wonder the repercussions of her passing have been felt far and wide, as she was extroverted, generous with intellectual help, and made lifelong friends."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Check out out Betty Wilson's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "Apart from her many gifts as poet, writer, scholar, and teacher, Velma was just an amazing human being. I was privileged to call her my friend."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025. Check out out Jean D'Costa's tribute to Velma Pollard in the latest issue of the journal www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/ "That was what Velma Pollard gave: fresh vision, the certainty of fair, impartial judgement, and equal conviction to give of our best."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025, features two interviews. Anita Baksh interviews Rajiv Mohabir (@rajivmohabir.bsky.social) Ronald Cummings interviews Linzey Corridon (@westofwestindian.bsky.social) Check out these interviews in the most recent issue of JWIL. www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025. Check out Kris Singh's (@krissingh.bsky.social‬) essay “Artificial Intelligence, Tyrannies, and Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber" in our most recent issue. www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025. Check out Gabriel Cambraia Neiva's essay "Wilson Harris, the Zemi Shaman" in our most recent issue. www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025. Check out Betsy Nies's essay “Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and the Impossibility of Innocence: Representing the Trauma of Childhood Experience in Trinidadian Young-Adult Literature" www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Happy to have my article on artificial intelligence and Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber published in the Journal of West Indian Literature. Grateful to the JWIL team, the reviewers, and the issue's editors Michael Bucknor and Aon Ul Abideen. www.jwilonline.org/downloads/vo...

Announcing the publication of JWIL's volume 33, number 2, co-edited by Michael A. Bucknor and Aon Ul Abideen. This open issue features cover art by Trinidadian artist, Salisha Stanley; essays by Betsy Nies, Kris Singh, and Gabriel Cambraia; interviews conducted by Anita Baksh and Ronald Cummings in conversation with Rajiv Mohabir and Linzey Corridon respectively; and tributes in honour of Velma Pollard by fellow writers, collaborators, and academics from around the world. We also feature book reviews of Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt; Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica by Matthew Chin; Oh Witness Deh! by Shani Mootoo;...And the Dogs Were Silent /...Et les chiens se taisaient authored by Aime Cesaire and translated by Alex Gil; and VS Naipaul and World Literature by Vijay Mishra.

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differences @differences.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"What openings does spacetime provide that the maritime, perhaps, cannot as readily support?" — from our latest issue, read Petal Samuel's "Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "If maritime metaphors grapple continuously with how to map Blackness’s trajectories—our relationships to space, the environment, our history, and each other—spacetime metaphors may be more interested in sensing and, thereby, elaborating new ways of knowing: they press on the ways we fail to adequately know and name the fullness of Blackness’s meanings, locations, enactments, and possibilities."

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The Journal of West Indian Literature (@jwilonline) has been at the forefront of publishing Caribbean writing and criticism since 1986. Our most recent issue can be found here: www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

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Salisha Stanley, “Spirit”, 31 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2024. Photographed by Shaun Rambaran.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Make Dionne Brand’s words a manifesto for this moment. This time. This present. The to come… www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wuB...

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2020 R.W.B. Jackson Lecture: Dionne Brand and Rinaldo Walcott

YouTube video by Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Congratulations to Wasafiri contributor Anthony V Capildeo on winning the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry this year! In celebration, we've made an interview between them and Palestinian writer Yousif M Qasmiyeh free access until 30 April: buff.ly/8sYBpuQ

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We are delighted to share that friend of dLOC Oneka LaBennett’s book, “Global Guyana” (2024, @nyupress.bsky.social), has been shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature! 🇬🇾 More info here: www.bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Congratulations to the team at @jwilonline.bsky.social. The publication is this year’s recipient of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters.

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

JWIL is this year's recipient of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters. The Award will be formally presented to current co-editors in chief Michael Bucknor and Lisa Outar, on on Saturday 3 May, at the Bocas Awards Ceremony. www.bocaslitfest.com/2025/03/25/2...

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2025 Bocas Swanzy Award honours Journal of West Indian Literature • Bocas Lit Fest

The pioneering Journal of West Indian Literature, the leading periodical dedicated to Anglophone Caribbean literary scholarship, has been named the

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lisa lowe @driftinghouse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

3/29 10 am: The People’s Saturday School with Gail Lewis & Liliane Landor

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Check out the first in the new series of blogs by JWIL. In this blog Michael Soriano focuses on the newly launched open-access journal Manchineel + Seagrape, which is dedicated to publishing edited scripts of Caribbean plays. www.jwilonline.org/jwil-blog-po...

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JWIL blog post March 2025: Michael R. Soriano on Manchineel + Seagrape | Journal of West Indian Literature

Manchineel + Seagrape: Archiving Caribbean Drama for Future Generations by Michael R. Soriano Manchineel + Seagrape, an open-access journal dedicated to publishing edited scripts of Caribbean plays…

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We're having a flash sale! Today and tomorrow only, save 50% on all books & journal issues. Use coupon FLASH50 to save. buff.ly/ist96Uj

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In Fractal Repair, Matthew Chin investigates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, critically responding to the island’s global reputation for extreme homophobia and anti-queer violence. 📚 buff.ly/4kfbeOj #LGBTHistory #LGBTplusHM25 @dukepress.bsky.social

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Registration for the 48th Annual SCS Conference is now open! 🥳 This year the conference will be held at the University of Bristol 2-4 July 2025. For more info, and to register, please see: community-languages.org.uk/scs/2653-2/ We can't wait to see you there!

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2025 Annual Conference Registration – Society for Caribbean Studies

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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

4/3: "In this workshop, scholar and activist Robert Connell will discuss... how Caribbean Maroon societies in the 21st century continue their freedom struggle by fighting corporate resource extraction on their lands and state encroachment on their sovereignty." www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/mar...

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Maroon Resistance Past and Present — Workshops 4 Gaza

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40). Step 2: Register for “Maroon Resistance, Past and Present” here . In this workshop, scholar and activist Robert Connell wil...

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

CFP: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference Where: The University of Miami When: October 8-11, 2025 Abstracts: 250-300 words, via online submission form Proposals Due: April 2, 2025, The Time of the “Bruggadung”: States of EmUrgency caribbean.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/02/19/c...

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Wasafiri is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Alex Wheatle, a renowned British novelist known as the ‘Brixton Bard’. His contributions to literature, youth, and community will be greatly missed — please join us in remembrance.

White background. Black and white image in the bottom left shows Alex Wheatle, a Black man with a quilted jacket and a plain tshirt. Text at the top reads 'Remembering Alex Wheatle 1963-2025'.

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Call for papers: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference The University of Miami, Coral Gables Department of English & Creative Writing and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies October 8-11, 2025 More information available in the link: www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Danielle Legros Georges joined sx salon as Creative Editor in 2022. Prior to taking up the role, she was a repeat contributor. This thread briefly highlights her poetic contributions to sx salon.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Number 75 is available, view the full TOC: buff.ly/qzPAgyS

Cover of Small Axe journal, issue 75. The artwork features a dark-skinned woman with voluminous curly hair, seated in a dimly lit room. She is wearing a black garment, with her face and hands illuminated by a warm, reddish glow. Her expression is contemplative, and her posture is relaxed, with one arm resting on the back of a chair. The background consists of abstract, painterly brushstrokes in deep reds, oranges, and browns, suggesting a window or light source. The journal title "Small Axe" and issue number "SX 75" are overlaid in the upper left corner in a subtle, semi-transparent font.

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

For @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and CUNY students: join us for a Climate Writing Workshop led by @emilyraboteau.bsky.social & @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social. Reflect on what it means to live in a coastal city; write a letter to the future, with hope. centerforthehumanities.org/event/climat...

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Some updates regarding the recent passing of sx salon's creative editor, Danielle Legros Georges. www.instagram.com/p/DG_wZ5EysX...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Today, we’d like to share a few key takeaways from our post-session handout of our third teach-in, “The Transnational Politics of June Jordan” with Breya Johnson (IG: blackreadingtoheal) 🖤 Read the full handout here: bit.ly/4kdx2db

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Conversation on @smallaxeproject.bsky.social Keywords project: patería, makoumé, kambrada, friend & family. With @doctorjc.bsky.social, Krystal Ghisyawan, @julianisenia.bsky.social, @larrylafountain.bsky.social, @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social & Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. smallaxe.net/sxprojects/k...

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