Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet, novelist, essayist and blogger; he’s published nine books. His third novel, Augustown, won the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. I had quite the t...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/17/this-zinc-roof-by-kei-miller-poetrymonth/
(in celebration of 2015 (US) National Poetry Month) Claudia Rankine is a Jamaican poet. She has published five collections of poetry. Her latest, Citizen: An American Lyric, is high up on my list...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/04/26/from-you-are-in-the-dark-in-the-car-by-claudia-rankine/
(in celebration of 2015 (US) National Poetry Month) Jamaican Lorna Goodison is one of the best contemporary Caribbean poets. She has published twelve collections of poetry, the latest of which, O...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/04/20/some-of-my-worst-wounds-by-lorna-goodison/
Olive Senior is an award-winning writer and poet from Jamaica. I love her collection, Gardening in the Tropics. I chose this poem because of this line: ‘Already I know, the moment you land I ...
https://kinnareads.com/2013/06/14/21-days21-poems-discovery-by-olive-senior/