Intersect 9/9/24 Intersect 9/9/24

Get to Know Our New Artist-in-Residence

Her creative work includes her recently published poetry collection The Mother Island which won 2nd place in the 2021 FCLE competition. The collection deals with matters of identity, motherhood and womanhood in the Caribbean.

Linzey Corridon 6/30/23 Linzey Corridon 6/30/23

Fe A-we

after by Kamau Brathwaite

So what if we queers die?

Linzey Corridon 6/29/23 Linzey Corridon 6/29/23

Ritual

And I am here

in commune with the seas

my curios stem from cashee,

breadfruit and jackfish, a feast

Linzey Corridon 6/28/23 Linzey Corridon 6/28/23

Interview with a Chichiman

I am the sea unending, rhythmic, fearless…

Linzey Corridon 6/27/23 Linzey Corridon 6/27/23

The Arrival of Birds

Amazona guildingii shrieks for you,

and your half-written sinuous chapters,

they are to remain unfinished.

This is one tragedy of the Caribbean queer.

Amelia Badri 7/6/22 Amelia Badri 7/6/22

Blackout

When the lights go off, and on, off- again-on-again, and finally out, tea light candles glow in every bedroom, two in every washroom.

Nastassia Rambarran 7/4/22 Nastassia Rambarran 7/4/22

Two haikus about the darkened sky and after

darkness at midday

the volcano next door flew

Jeanine M. Gervais 5/30/22 Jeanine M. Gervais 5/30/22

Connected to the Earth

You come to Sell

Your craft everyday

Tourist come to buy

Glass, plastic, shell.

Lafleur Cockburn 4/29/22 Lafleur Cockburn 4/29/22

Milk in Bush Tea

By sunup, Soufrière have the country inside out. Bryna cyar recognize he farm; the North Pole like it move to Orange Hill, bringing heat instead ah cold.

Denise Westfield 4/27/22 Denise Westfield 4/27/22

Seasons

Marcel opened her eyes slowly. She blinked rapidly, inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly. She was alive. She was honestly surprised to be awake, yet again.

Tamara NA Toney 4/25/22 Tamara NA Toney 4/25/22

Heavy

It was then that I really saw the exodus. I remember the mattresses- some folded to accommodate another- others splayed on the sides of trucks and vans. I remember the strained faces of a people who were trying to get to a destination some of which were unknown.

Grace Peters-Clarke 4/25/22 Grace Peters-Clarke 4/25/22

Strayed Child of Hairouna

You used to tell people about the volcano in your island with a kind of pride, the life source of the island— a natural phenomenon that humbles even the most arrogant.

Nisha Hope 2/3/22 Nisha Hope 2/3/22

The Clean Up

The new tenants at the school next door

Hung their faces down as we

Entered the grey snow capped yard.

Dr. Jacinth Browne-Howard 9/9/21 Dr. Jacinth Browne-Howard 9/9/21

Snow on Banana Leaves

Petra had lived long enough to witness this once before. The monstrous anger of Soufriere in 1979. The pelted stones and the wrathful skies of obsidian.

Janielle Browne 10/30/20 Janielle Browne 10/30/20

To the men in my area

I’m tired of writing about this

I’m tired of writing this

I’m tired of being handed material

Grace Peters-Clarke 10/30/20 Grace Peters-Clarke 10/30/20

In The Bowels of Her Memory

Maybe this is the time to come clean. This is the salvation, the sign she had been beseeching the universe for the last four years. Or maybe this is a trap. To admit the abuse, would be to admit her weakness.