{"id":519,"date":"2013-04-19T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=519"},"modified":"2015-04-27T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:59:59","slug":"st-martin-book-fair-2013-poetry-appreciation-gift-for-st-maarten-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2013\/04\/19\/st-martin-book-fair-2013-poetry-appreciation-gift-for-st-maarten-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Martin Book Fair 2013 poetry appreciation gift for St. Maarten Academy."},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERS, St. Martin (April 19, 2013)<\/strong>\u2014<\/span>On Friday, the St. Maarten Academy received copies of\u00a0The Angel Horn<\/span> by Shake Keane, for each student of its Form 4 and 5 literary classes,\u00a0said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP).<\/p>\n

The poetry appreciation and HNP reading\/writing motivation gift came from the St. Martin Book Fair, which is gearing up for its 11th<\/span> annual edition from May 30-June 1, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs principal of the St. Maarten Academy, we are thankful to the Book Fair Committee for choosing our institution this year to do its pre-Book Fair presentation in the form of books, but mostly thankful to have the author Max Rippon among us today,\u201d said\u00a0Shareed Hussain, principal of the\u00a0St. Maarten Academy.<\/p>\n

Well-known Guadeloupean author, Max Rippon flew in from Marie Galante and took part in the presentation, which he and youngest Book Fair Committee (BFC) member,\u00a0Akilah Meulens, made to principal Hussain.\u00a0A favorite book fair returnee writer, Rippon\u2019s novels are studied in primary schools in the North of the island.<\/p>\n

The Angel Horn<\/span> is the most comprehensive poetry collection by Keane, one of the fathers of modern Caribbean literature, an educator and a famously innovative jazz trumpeter from St. Vincent, said Sample.<\/p>\n

\u201cYoung readers can quickly get into many of Shake Keane\u2019s poems,\u201d said Sample. \u201cWe also want youngsters to see, touch, share and enjoy a book of this quality that was published on their home island,\u201d said Sample about the 194-page title, published by HNP in 2005.<\/p>\n

About 20 students were gathered in the Academy classroom for the presentation.\u00a0\u201cWhen one lives on an island the fastest and easiest way to travel the world is through books. You can tour the world by reading books. You are the future and reading will make your future much brighter,\u201d said\u00a0Rippon to the high schoolers.<\/p>\n

Pre- and post-Book fair activities have over the years involved\u00a0schools, senior citizens homes, and libraries on both parts of St. Martin, and the prison in Pointe Blanche,\u00a0said book fair\u00a0coordinator Shujah Reiph.<\/p>\n

Conscious Lyrics Foundation and HNP\u00a0are organizing the St. Martin Book Fair\u00a02013 in collaboration with the\u00a0St. Maarten Tourist Bureau and the University of St. Martin.<\/p>\n

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L-R:\u00a0Tallulah Vanterpool-Baly,\u00a0head, Students Care,\u00a0St. Maarten Academy; Kim Luscas-Felix, head,\u00a0English Department,\u00a0St. Maarten Academy;Ivonne John, teacher; Rochelle Ward (Faizah Tabasamu), teacher,\u00a0English literature and language;\u00a0Max Rippon, poet, novelist; Akilah Meulens,member, BFC; and\u00a0Shareed Hussain, principal,\u00a0St. Maarten Academy. (CLF photo)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERS, St. Martin (April 19, 2013)\u2014On Friday, the St. Maarten Academy received copies of\u00a0The Angel Horn by Shake Keane, for each student of its Form 4 and 5 literary classes,\u00a0said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). The poetry appreciation and HNP reading\/writing motivation gift came from the St. Martin Book Fair, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-fair-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}