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In MEP Caribbean Publishers' Caribbean Beat Jan/Feb 2025 issue: Palmyra - Karen Barrow Resistance, Refuge, Revival - Lennox Honychurch The House of Plain Truth - Donna Hemans West of West Indian - Linzey Corridon Reading the Caribbean means you read the world. bit.ly/bookbuzzjanfeb…

Stucky. Because so much could have been protected by simply giving Captain America a boyfriend. This one. Artist: maxkennedy24 via Tumblr

Wide Sargasso Sea.

In a ragged, treacherous world, I'm giving thanks for Han Kang and deborah smith 🍉 durga ki maa. How astonishing, the gift of Kang in her own language. How remarkable, the conduit of Deborah Smith to bring her to so many of us, in English. I don't think I can ever stop being grateful. Not ever.

No one would accuse me of writing love poems, but they prowl in the🫀 of what I do. In my new Substack, I unearth a poem that's almost a decade old, talk about two of my major tells, and ask you to join me for a week of love + relationships at Arvon with Ella Frears.

Yes Chef! 🫡

In MEP Caribbean Publishers Caribbean Beat Mar/Apr 2025 issue, I highlight: Code Noir - Canisia Lubrin Time Cleaves Itself - Jeda Pearl Time Cleaves Itself 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇯🇲 Mother Archive - Erika Morillo Looking for Cazabon - Lawrence Scott Remember, reading the Caribbean means you read the world. bit.ly/bookbuzzmarapr…

Free Palestine. Now and Always.

Bring your queerest vibes to this Arvon Bi+ Poetry online masterclass with me! 📆 September 23rd, 2025 🕖 7-9 PM BST / 2-4 PM AST 💸 £40, or ≈ $360 TTD, or ≈ $53 USD 🌐 via Zoom webinar 🔗 bit.ly/bipluspoetry_a… Claim the bi+ poems that are your own. #BiPoems

Time to see if everybody wins.

🔥 Photograph by Shaun Rambaran.

"History of Pleasure", by Richie Hofmann, from A Hundred Lovers (2022).

I'm a very anxious cook. I made a baidawi recipe for the first time and am sitting here with it, stunned at how good it tastes. Thank you, Baidawi. This is nothing less than a gift.

Me: *looks up what the word ontology means* Me: ah yes, very sensible Me 2 months later: *encounters ontology in the wild, utter befuddlement ensues* *meanwhile, praxis looking on like*

Indo-Trinidadians, please don't pontificate on, moralise, or extrapolate, based on nothing more than vibes, about the lived experiences and ancestral traumas of Afro-Trinidadians. It really can be as simple as that.