ReadCaribbean ap prezante Mervyn Morris an konvèsasyon avèk Kwame Dawes. Moderatè: Geoffrey Philp. (In English, with simultaneous interpretation into Haitian Creole/yon prezantasyon an annanglè, avèk entèpretasyon kreyòl an menm tan)
Ansyen Powèt Loreya Jamayik la, Mervyn Morris, ap prezante yon mwatye syèk pwezi avèk anpil son mizik nan Peelin Orange: Collected Poems, ki montre nou jan tousa ki inivèsèl nan lavi a kapab vin rantre nan tousa ki lokal, e jwenn plas yo nan Karayib la. City of Bone, yon liv Kwame Dawes, ap plen kè nou ak tèt nou avèk pwòp mizik pa li, depi nan tanbou, pase pa rege, “blues, ak djaz, rive nan chante levanjil. Se powèt, womansye, ak otè pyès teyat Geoffrey Philp k ap anime rankont sa a.
(Philp, Geoffrey) Geoffrey Philp is a poet and fiction writer who teaches English at Miami Dade College, where he also chairs the College Preparatory Department. Philp is the author of three children's books, Marcus and the Amazons, Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories, and The Christmas Dutch Pot Baby; two collections of short stories, Uncle Obadiah and the Alien and Who's Your Daddy?; a novel, Benjamin, My Son; and five poetry collections, Exodus and Other Poems, Florida Bound, Hurricane Center, Xango Music, and Dub Wise. Philp's work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories and the Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Geoffrey Philp se yon powèt ak womansye k ap anseye angle nan Miami Dade College, kote li se chèf Depatman Preparasyon pou Inivèsite a tou. Philp se otè twa liv pou timoun, Marcus and the Amazons, Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories, ak The Christmas Dutch Pot Baby; de (2) koleksyon nouvèl, Uncle Obadiah and the Alien ak Who's Your Daddy?; de (2) woman, Benjamin, My Son ak Garvey’s Ghost; ak senk koleksyon pwezi, Exodus and Other Poems, Florida Bound, Hurricane Center, Xango Music, ak Dub Wise. Èv Philp la parèt nan plizyè jounal ak antoloji, tankou paregzanp Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories ak Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse.
(Dawes, Kwame) Kwame Dawes is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, including, most recently, Duppy Conqueror, Wheels, Back of Mount Peace, and Hope’s Hospice. He has also published two novels, Bivouac and She’s Gone, winner of the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Best First Novel. An accomplished actor, playwright, and producer, fifteen of his plays have been produced, and he has acted in, directed, or produced several of these productions himself, most recently One Love at the Lyric Hammersmith in London. His essays have appeared in numerous journals including Bomb Magazine, The London Review of Books, Granta, Essence, World Literature Today, and Double Take Magazine. Until July 2011, Dawes was Distinguished Poet in Residence, Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts, and founder and executive director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern University Press) constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future. As the twentieth collection in the poet’s hallmarked career, City of Bones reaches a pinnacle, adding another chapter to the grand narrative of invention and discovery cradled in the art of empathy that has defined his prodigious body of work. Kwame Dawes se otè sèz koleksyon pwezi, tankou paregzanp, dènye sa ki parèt yo, Duppy Conqueror, Wheels, Back of Mount Peace, ak Hope’s Hospice. Li pibliye de (2) woman tou, Bivouac ak She’s Gone, ki genyen Pri Hurston/Wright Legacy 2008 la pou Pi Bon Premye Woman. Li se yon aktè, otè pyès teyat, ak pwodiktè plen talan; yo pwodui kenz nan pyès teyat li yo, epi li jwe, dirije, oswa pwodui plizyè nan pyès sa yo li menm, pi dènyèman One Love nan Lyric Hammersmith nan vil Lonn. Esè literè li yo parèt nan plizyè jounal tankou paregzanp Bomb Magazine, The London Review of Books, Granta, Essence, World Literature Today, ak Double Take Magazine. Jiska jiyè 2011, Dawes te Powèt Envite Distenge, Pwofesè La Liberal Louis Frye Scudder, epi li se fondatè ak direktè egzekitif South Carolina Poetry Initiative. Pwezi lirik ki nan City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern University Press) se yon jeremyad san repo pou epòk nou an, epi vwa san parèy Dawes la peple koleksyon sa a avèk yon miltitid nanm k ap chante avèk fòs, rele, bougonnen, ak reve sou prezan ak avni dyaspora afriken an. Kòm ventyèm koleksyon nan karyè remakab powèt la, City of Bones atenn yon somè, li ajoute yon lòt chapit nan bèl istwa envansyon ak dekouvèt ki plontonnen nan konpreyansyon ki defini èv fòmidab li a.
(Morris, Mervyn) Mervyn Morris is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica, where he was born in 1937. He studied at the University College of the West Indies and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the South Bank Centre. His previous collections include The Pond, Shadowboxing, Examination Centre, and On Holy Week. He also edited The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories and published “Is English We Speaking” and other essays. In 2009, Morris was awarded the Order of Merit (Jamaica), which honored his distinguished contribution to West Indian Literature. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica, where he is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & West Indian Literature. Peelin Orange (Carcanet Press Ltd.) assembles Morris’s poems into one definitive collection, which explore the everyday, the erotic, love and the melancholy and comedy of being. Often drawing upon Creole dialect, Morris explores his Jamaican heritage with trademark musicality. Each poem offers a pared-down shard of concentrated feeling and social observation. Mervyn Morris se Powèt Loreya Jamayik, kote li te fèt an 1937. Li etidye nan University College of the West Indies ak nan St. Edmund Hall, nan Oxford. An 1992 li te Ekriven Envite Konsèy Dèza Angletè a nan South Bank Centre. Koleksyon li te pibliye anvan sa yo te gen paregzanp The Pond, Shadowboxing, Examination Centre, ak On Holy Week. Li te edite tou The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories epi pibliye “Is English We Speaking” ak lòt esè literè. An 2009, Morris te resevwa Lòd Merit (Jamayik), ki te onore kontribisyon distenge li nan Literati Karibeyen an. Li rete nan Kingston, Jamayik, kote li se Pwofesè Emerit Kreyasyon Literè ak Literati Karibeyen. Peelin Orange (Carcanet Press Ltd.) ransanble pwezi Morris yo nan yon koleksyon definitif, ki eksplore lavi toulejou, sansyalite, lanmou, melankoli ak komedi egzistans la. Morris tire souvan nan dyalèk kreyòl la pou eksplore eritaj jamayiken li an ki gen yon son mizik espesyal. Chak pwezi se yon ti mòso toutouni nan santiman konsantre ak obsèvasyon sosyal.
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