by Jacqueline Sample St. Martin, Caribbean —The cover design of Nativity/Nativité/Natividad, a new poetry book out of St. Martin, appears to be asking us to enter the epic poem through a portal of two towering sculptures by Fernando Botero. The images that dominate the cover are of the colossal Adán and Eva bronze statues,...
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BRADES, Montserrat – Struggles of the heart, faith and troubled pasts abound in Church Affairs, the debut novel by Montserrat native Theo Semper. “Church Affairs doesn’t read like a novel from a first time author,” says Jeevan Robinson of mnialive.com. “Semper handles the story like someone with two or three books already under his...
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GREAT BAY, St. Martin – The author Cynthia Wilson, a grande dame of Barbadian culture, has presented copies of her short stories book, Same Sea … Another Wave, to seven St. Martin institutions, said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). Same Sea recipients are the St. Martin’s Home and  Bethany Home,...
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GREAT BAY, St. Martin – The island’s 2010-2011 school year began last week in the south and within short school doors will open in the north as well. But not a full week into the school year and Albert Chance of Van Dorp bookstore had to re-order copies of An Introduction to Government and...
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LITTLE BAY – Noted writer and multiple winner of the Montserrat literary Prize for Poetry Chadd Cumberbatch is set to release his first volume of work. The book entitled (hold your breath) ‘Ya Ya Surfeit – Mellonie Boy Dancng On Me Head’ is a collection of mostly poems and monologues inspired by Caribbean life....
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Italian gets Ph.D. on Lasana Sekou’s work GREAT BAY, St. Martin—While all interested eyes here were on the St. Martin Book Fair, visiting authors, and new books launched on St. Martin between the end of May and the first two weeks of June, there were other news brewing afar about the island’s writings, said...
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GREAT BAY, St. Martin—Author Felecita Williams (L, standing) and principal P. Friday pose with pupils of the MLK, Jr. Primary School in Dutch Quarter (6/4/10). Williams visited grades 4 and 5 as part of the “Meet the Writers” program of the 8th annual St. Martin Book Fair. She spoke about her life and near-death...
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GREAT BAY, St. Martin —Lasana Sekou’s new poetry book Nativity/Nativité/Natividad will be launched at the closing ceremony of the St. Martin Book Fair on Saturday, June 5, said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers. “We are inviting our book party and book fair friends and new guests from all walks of life to...
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MARIGOT, St. Martin —The new book Nativity/Nativité/Natividad by Lasana M. Sekou was presented here to Collectivity President Frantz Gumbs on Tuesday. During the presentation in the president’s office, Sekou thanked President Gumbs for the Collectivity’s cultural arts contribution toward the French translation of the poetry, which is structured in the canto general tradition of the...
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GREAT BAY, St. Martin —The workshops at the 8th annual St. Martin Book Fair, June 3 – 5, 2010, are again going to be informative and so exciting, said book fair coordinator Shujah Reiph. The Aruban poet/novelist Quito Nicolaas is one of the visiting authors. His workshop topic is “How to identify Aruban literature today,”...
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