Pwezi Gustavo Adolfo Aybar explores baseball in his poetry collection, We Seek Asylum, as an allegorical meditation on the battle for the soul of the Dominican Republic. Actor, writer, and poet Yrsa Daley-Ward’koleksyon, bone, details her experiences as a first-generation black British woman working through abuse, vulnerability, and redemption. Poet and performer Aja Monet’pa Manman m te yon konbatan pou libète is an ode to mothers, daughters, sisters tackling gentrification, genocide, and grief. In Everyone Knows I Am A Haunting, Shivanee Ramlochan’s crosses boundaries of genre, gender, and religion with such figures as Trinidad’s Duenne, the Hindu god Kali, and Milton’s Lilith.
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