by oes_news | Jun 13, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017 |
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (June 13, 2017)—At age 87, the distinguished Caribbean poet/scholar offers up Liviticus, his newest poetry book, published here in June by House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP), said Lasana M. Sekou of the indie press. Liviticus is “a monument to...
by oes_news | Jun 11, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017 |
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (June 11, 2016)—The leading St. Martin painter Sir Roland Richardson is the new recipient of the Presidents Award from the St. Martin Book Fair. Richardson accepted the award at the closing ceremony of the festival’s 15th anniversary on June 3,...
by oes_news | May 18, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017 |
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 18, 2017)—Pen on Paper: St. Martin 1970 – 2017 by Joseph H. Lake, Jr. was just released here by St. Martin Republic Publishers, said Nzinga Lake, the book’s publicist. Pen on Paper is a collection of over 50 commentaries, news articles, and...
by oes_news | May 14, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017 |
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 14, 2017)—“As a director trying to capture the essence of the story, … I’m interested in developing a Caribbean aesthetic,” said filmmaker Asha Lovelace about making movies. In Joebell and America that is exactly what Lovelace manages to do...
by oes_news | May 4, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017 |
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 4, 2017)—The St. Maarten Carnival has just ended but music is still in the Caribbean air. And music will be critically highlighted at the St. Martin Book Fair, June 1 – 3, 2017, said Shujah Reiph, the literary festival director. “The music...
by oes_news | Apr 17, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017 |
MARIGOT, St. Martin (April 12, 2017)—The Association of Caribbean Writers (ACW) awarded its Grand Literature Prize to novelist Rita Indiana at the closing ceremony of the Caribbean Writers Congress (CWC) in Guadeloupe on April 8, 2017. The winning novel, La mucama de...
by oes_news | Jan 4, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017 |
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (January 4, 2017)—It is not often that a politician is also a major, continuing patron of the cultural arts in St. Martin. Louis Constant Fleming is one of the very few exceptions among this rare grouping in St. Martin, North and South. For the...
by oes_news | Apr 8, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News, News 2016 |
GREAT BAY – Dynamic speaker and leading space scientist Dr. Camille Wardrop Alleyne will deliver the keynote address of the St. Martin Book Fair, June 2 – 4, 2016, said Shujah Reiph, book fair coordinator. “The Science of It” is the theme of the literary...
by oes_news | Feb 15, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News, News 2016 |
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (February 14, 2016)—The St. Martin Book Fair, slated for mid-2016, is already being profiled in the USA and Caribbean media. “Readers and authors will be gathering in the Caribbean for the 14th annual St. Martin Book Fair, scheduled for June 2...
by oes_news | May 12, 2015 | Reviews |
Loretta Collins Klobah’s The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman, a book review by Faizah Tabasamu On a pedestal, in the eye of this hurricane of multilingual poetry—“a vibrant blend of English, Spanish, and Patois”—written by Loretta Collins Klobah, womanhood sheds her...
