Liberation Poetics

Writing a Revolution

Dated Sunday, March 7, 1981, the piece is captioned, “The New Caribbean Woman,” and provides a snapshot into the lives of six women who came to Grenada from across the world to dedicate their time and talents to the revolution.

 
 
 

Liberation Poetics

Responding from the Hills

To respond from the hills is to position oneself within a symbolic and material territory where forms of knowledge, memory, and resistance continue surviving beyond the reach of imperial and supremacist logics.

 
 
 

Liberation Poetics

Blooming, Epistolary Poetics Against U.S. Empire

Nancy Morejón dedicates poems to Maurice Bishop, unnamed Grenadian women guerrilla fighters, and unnamed Cuban construction workers alike.

 
 

Liberation Poetics: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism

“…in traumatic times like ours when reality itself is so distorted as to have become impossible and abnormal, it is the function of all culture, partaking of this abnormality, to be aware of its own sickness…To reinterpret this reality is to commit oneself to a revolutionary assault against it. For me then, the play, the novel, the poem, the critical essay, are means to this end — not ends in themselves.”

— Sylvia Wynter, We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture

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