Some of the poems mentioned here (“One”, “Caribbean Woman”, “She works…”, “She lives There”, “Development”, “Mango Season”, “Differences”, “Ghosts Lament”, “Tongue Twista”, “Venus Ascending”, “A Prayer”, “Caribbean Spirit”, “Caribbean Sunset”, “The Sea”, “Prospero’s Education”, “Da’s Calypso”, “The Arrival”, “Ah Write!”, “Philly Ramblings 8”, “Old People”, and “Hope Springs Eternal”) are featured in my 2014 collection Dancing Nude in the Moonlight 10th Anniversary edition and Other Writings. Find that and my other BOOKS here, and see fiction and other journaled writing as well for more of my writing. This list may also include fictional responses to prompts published here on the blog, just to keep track of my writing.
“Happy New Year” in Dappled Things: A Quarterly of Ideas, Art, & Faith, Volume 17, Issue 4, Mary, Queen of Angels 2022 issue – January 2023
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“Ah Write!”, “Da’s Calypso“, “She Works”, “She Lives There”, “Ghosts’ Lament“, and “An Ode to the Pan Man” on the website of the Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medellin (at which I performed on August 10th 2021) – July 2021
Also published in the official festival publication (JCH in Revista Prometeo) – August 2021
Excerpt from “An Ode to the Pan Man”:
Éste es para el pan man
que toda la noche toca su steel pan
en el pan yard
[“This one is for the pan man
the beating his pan all night
at the pan yard man”]
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“Antigua, at Night” in BIM: Arts for the 21st Century Vol. 10 Issue 1– 2021
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“Grandmother and Child”, “Weather Patterns”, “Waste Not” in Skin Deep magazine Is this the End? – 2020
Excerpt from “Weather Patterns”:
“The rain slices into the day
Sudden and angry”
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“The Moon’s Mistress” (a prompt response) in Brave and Reckless’ blog – October 9th 2019
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“#Girlscan” (a tribute to Team Antigua Island Girls – the first all black female team to row the Atlantic ocean, and they’re from Antigua-Barbuda) – in the Daily Observer newspaper – January 25th 2019
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“In Shadow” – a prompt response published exclusively on the Jhohadli blog – 2017
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“This is not a Eulogy” – a prompt response published exclusively on the Jhohadli blog – 2016
“The Wafer” – a prompt response published exclusively on the Jhohadli blog – 2016
[Photo Fiction #20 Challenge: A Response] – a prompt response published exclusively on the Jhohadli blog – 2016
Excerpt:
“What you don’t see
Could fill chapters”
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“Election Season” in 
Interviewing the Caribbean Vol. 2 No. 1, A History of Violence Part 1 The Making of Caribbean Society – 2016
Excerpt:
“And the lies blow in
Corrosive like sea salt”
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“The Bamboo Raft” in Interviewing the Caribbean Vol. 2 No. 1, A History of Violence Part 1 The Making of Caribbean Society – 2016
Excerpt:
“He barely remembers their faces
Toiling in the push and stab of the city”
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“Election Season ll“ in The Caribbean Writer Volume 29 
– 2015
Excerpt:
She burn she voter card
“Linin’ up and dreamin’ change ain’ worth a fart”
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“Civi-li-za-tion“ in Artemis Volume XXl – 2014
Excerpt:
“The music’s on mute
The scribe’s out of the loop
The dance lacks expression”
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“Children Melee” in Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters (British Virgin Islands) Issue 3 – 2014
Excerpt:
“Heart pounding
I lived and breathed it”
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“Music” in The Caribbean Writer 
Volume 27 – 2013
Excerpt:
“Music ah wan aphrodisiac
Medicine for this pain”
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“Ode to the Pan Man” in The Caribbean Writer Volume 27 – 2013
Excerpt:
“This one is for the pan man
The beating his pan all night
At the pan yard man”
(Video below from reading at Antigua and Barbuda Independence arts showcase – 2018)
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“On Seeing Euzhan Palcy’s Rue Cases Nègres“ in The Caribbean Writer – Volume 27 – 2013
Excerpt:
“As they walk this uncut path
Limbs slapping at her limbs”
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“Summer 1”in The Missing Slate (also published 2014 in Tongues of the Ocean with a companion painting in response to it by Glenroy Aaron; I also served as guest editor for this issue) – 2013
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“Feather in her Ear“ in 
Womanspeak: A Journal of Art and Writing by Caribbean Women Volume 7 – 2013
Excerpt:
“…ole time Calypso
dance through her, head to toe”
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“Another Garden“ in Womanspeak: A Journal of Art and Writing by Caribbean Women Volume 7 – 2013
Excerpt:
“…mistake bruise
for blush
crushing fists
for love’s touch”
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“Prison for Two” in Womanspeak: A Journal of Art and Writing by Caribbean Women Volume 7 – 2013
Excerpt:
“Watching as they wait to climb the steps
to their Fate…”
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“Corporal Punishment“ in Womanspeak: A Journal of Art and Writing by Caribbean Women Volume 7 – 2013
Excerpt:
“Her body crashing
Against the glass”
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“Caribbean Woman“ in The Columbia Review: the Oldest College Literary Magazine in the Nation (US) – 2013
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“She Works” in Womanspeak: a Journal of Literature and Art by Caribbean Women Volume 6 – 2012
Excerpt:
“A thin row of cane stalks marks
The boundary of the land
She carries a bath heavy with clothes in her hands”
Additional information: This poem was selected in a national contest for translation in a hemispheric publication that did not come to be. You can read that translation here.
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“She Lives There” in Womanspeak: a Journal of Literature and Art by Caribbean Women Volume 6 – 2012
Excerpt:
“There, suitors dock and dance,
The moon whispers with a soca-lilt
And music ‘n rum anna good lime
Make the spirit forget”
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“Development“ (also previewed in Tongues of the Ocean 2012) in Womanspeak: a Journal of Literature and Art by Caribbean Women Volume 6 – 2012
Excerpt:
“There’s a part of her that wants to keep it just so
Even as the sound of rushing water
Competes with the groan of the backhoe”
(Audio below from a reading of “Development” and “Summer One” – starting at 38:05 – for Angles of Light on Chapel Hill FM in Leeds, UK – 2019)
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“Mango Season” in The Caribbean Volume 26 
– 2012
Excerpt:
“I bite in
Chewing on the tangy skin
The sweet rushes in”
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“Differences“ in Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbeean: Complexities of Place, Desire, and Belonging – 2012
Excerpt:
“I tell myself there’s more
More than the science
Of fire and brimstone
If I could just decipher it
Read between his lines”
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“Ghosts Lament” in S X Salon 5 – 2011
Excerpt:
“Someone beats a pan
A skanking Marley jam”
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“Scenes from a Caribbean Childhood” in Anansesem: Caribbean Children’s and YA Literature Magazine – 2010
Excerpt:
“The sun
feels nice
and the beach;
even saltwater
burning your eyes.”
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“Tongue Twista” in The Caribbean Writer 
Volume 24 – 2010
Excerpt:
“de pepperpot
we concoct
outa de slave master
tongue
an’ blen’ up wid
de sweet African
song”
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“She Rocks Locks” (which also featured in Women of Antigua’s stage production When a Woman Moans – 2010) in byZIA Photography’s video poem She Rox Lox
– 2010
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“Venus Ascending“ in 
Mythium: the Journal of Contemporary Literature and Cultural Voices – 2009
Excerpt:
“Starlets blinked quietly
into obscurity,
and yet the sky was lit like a Caribbean night;
It’s beauty legendary”
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“Benediction before the Essences: A Prayer, Caribbean Sunset, Caribbean Spirit, The Sea“ in Women Writers Special Issue (Serving the Spirits: Women and Voodoo in Literature and Popular Culture) – 2008.
Excerpt:
“Sacred Roots, Strong Limbs
Jumbie have long memory”
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“Prospero’s Education” in Calabash: a Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters Volume 4 Number 2 – 2007.
Excerpt:
“We tap our
feet
to this tuneless rhythm
and eat
and sleep.”
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“The Arrival” in Calabash: a Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters Volume 4 Number 2 – 2007.
Excerpt:
“It was mango season
And she longed to tear at its flesh with her teeth
And suck its juices with her lips and tongue”
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“Da’s Calypso” Calabash: a Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters Volume 4 Number 2 – 2007.
Excerpt:
“De calypsonian
ha wan special gift
he lif’ de horrors
from de life
o’ de people
an’ mek dem
dance to it”
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“Ah Write!” (also available online in the 2014 PEN World Voices Online anthology and in
The PEN America Journal 18. In Transit – 2015) in The Caribbean Writer Volume 18 
– 2004.
Excerpt:
“Ah Write ’cause is so ah
sing
an’ dance
an’ bring ma art”
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“Philly Ramblings 8” in Ma Comère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Volume 3 – 2000.
Excerpt:
“in spite of
distances
and differences
and the fact that we
only offer each other
fragments
of ourselves.”
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“De Bull“ in Antigua Sun newspaper – 2000.
Excerpt:
“He kneels down before us
though not bowed.
Never that!”
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“Hope Springs Eternal” in Collective Soul – 1998.
Excerpt:
“I know
what a practical
joker
you are
so
Bitch
don’t tease me”
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“Old People” in Collective Soul – 1998.
Excerpt:
“like diamonds
mined from
Africa’s soul
sold
but wearing
dignity
still”
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