Goodman's Bay in Nassau, Bahamas at dusk; Lorna Goodison, Derek Walcott, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, early Robert Bly, Yusef Komunyakaa, NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, The Great Torch Singers (Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Betty Carter, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae), Dennis Brown, Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Exuma the Obeah Man, Maureen Duvalier, Sidney Poitier, David Rudder, C.L.R. James, Robert Love, Martin Carter, Arthur Rimbaud, Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Jimi Hendrix, Bounty Killa, Lady Saw, Louise "Miss Lou" Bennett. . .OK, you really don't have the time to hear it all. . . .
Neye Benziyor?
The music in my head translated into digital hieroglyphics
Christian Campbell, of The Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago, is a poet, cultural critic, journalist and culture worker. He read for an MPhil in English at Balliol College, University of Oxford as the 2002 Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholar and completed a PhD at Duke University. He has presented his work in the Caribbean, the US, the UK and Switzerland, and is widely published in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. A Cave Canem Poetry Fellow and Arvon Foundation graduate, he was a member of the Bahamian National Swim Team. During his time at Oxford, he co-founded Slice( ) Mango, a collective of Oxford writers working in non-canonical traditions; they are currently preparing to find a publisher for their inaugural anthology. His manuscript, Running the Dusk, was named runner-up finalist for the 2005 Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Sonia Sanchez.
Links to Christian's poetry on the web: http://www.mipoesias.com/EVIESHOCKLEYISSUE/campbell_c.html http://www.oxonianreview.org/issues/3-2/issue-3-2.html http://www.nyu.edu/calabash/vol4no2/0402019.pdf
http://www.nyu.edu/calabash/vol1no1/
ARC AND HUE will be available at the NYC book party on Sunday, Sept. 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012. Between Houston & Bleecker, near the F & 6 trains.
ARC AND HUE will also be available at the Chicago book parties: 10/1, 8:30 p.m. Katerina’s, 1920 W. Irving Park Road, Chicago, IL 60613 10/2, 8 p.m. The Silver Room, 1442 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642
Cheers champ, an honour having you here, be well, and do enjoy the library/blog's contents, here's hoping that it'll inspire you, as your creative genius has inspired me, sweet dreams then...
hi cuz, i love yout page and your baby pic is so cute...but guess what, all of us got a sawyer's studio photo in one dusty photo album at our grandma's house....lolol Pardon i soldier is genius. Aydee did a good job for you!!!
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ahhh well just hit the site up and check it out. its at
www.workforbling.com
im not sure how to make it so you can click on this link, so you can just copy and paste it into your internet explorer and check it out. whateva, just do it. you'll see. the money is sweet!
anyways, i gots to run, but gimme a call later on, k?
