Caribbean Voices: Generations in Art and Literature with Opal Adisa, Ramabai Espinet, Gordon Rohlehr, and Donna Weir-Soley
Saturday, Nov. 19, 11:00 a.m., Room 3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Opal Adisa
Opal Adisa is an award-winning poet, prose writer and inspirational speaker. Her twelve titles include the novel, It Begins With Tears; Caribbean Erotica, co-edited with Donna Weir-Soley; and her new novel, Painting Away Regrets (Peepal Tree Press, $26.95).
Leroy Clarke
Leroy Clarke is an artist, poet, lecturer and philosopher. Clarke, acclaimed as one of the region's leading artists, has contributed many essays on issues of national importance. His books include, Taste of Endless Fruit; Douens; Eyeing De Word – Love Poems for Ettylene; De Distance is Here; The El Tucuche Poems 1984-2007; Secret Insect of a Bird Deep in Me Wanting to Fly; and Voice of a Smouldering Coal. Leroy Clarke's appearance is cancelled.
Ramabai Espinet
Ramabai Espinet is a poet, a writer of fiction and essays, and a critic. Her published works include the poetry collection, Nuclear Seasons, the books for children, The Princess of Spadina and Ninja's Carnival, and her first novel, The Swinging Bridge, a portrait of the immigrant experience.
Gordon Rohlehr
Gordon Rohlehr is a retired Professor of West Indian Literature at the University of the West Indies and a pioneer in the reinterpretation of Caribbean culture. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Caribbean culture and literary history, including: Transgression, Transition, Transformation: Essays in Caribbean Culture; A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on Calypso; Ancestories: Readings of Kamau Brathwaite’s Ancestors.
Donna Aza Weir-Soley
Donna Aza Weir-Soley is an Associate Professor of English, African & African Diaspora Studies and Women's Studies at Florida International University in Miami. A recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, she is the author of First Rain; Eroticism, Spirituality and Resistance In Black Women's Writings; and co-editor of the new anthology, Caribbean Erotic, which boasts 62 writers from the English-speaking, French-speaking, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)
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