sx salon
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Digital forum for innovative critical and creative explorations of Caribbean literature, broadly defined; a Small Axe literary platform
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· Aug 1
Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison.
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
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Wifredo Lam: Artist-Poet of Tropical Dreams and Sorrows. The great Cuban modernist, whose politics and Afro-Asian roots shaped his paintings and inspired generations of artists, gets a revelatory survey at MoMA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
Wifredo Lam: Artist-Poet of Tropical Dreams and Sorrows
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November 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Wifredo Lam: Artist-Poet of Tropical Dreams and Sorrows. The great Cuban modernist, whose politics and Afro-Asian roots shaped his paintings and inspired generations of artists, gets a revelatory survey at MoMA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
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Natural Disasters and Puerto Rican Art as Resistance to Colonialism: Responses to Hurricane María in Latinx Talk.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Natural Disasters and Puerto Rican Art as Resistance to Colonialism: Responses to Hurricane María in Latinx Talk.
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latinxtalk.org/2025/11/13/t...
With great pleasure, the Small Axe Project welcomes Simone A. James Alexander to the sx salon editorial team, taking over the role of Book Reviews Editor from Ronald Cummings.
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
With great pleasure, the Small Axe Project welcomes Simone A. James Alexander to the sx salon editorial team, taking over the role of Book Reviews Editor from Ronald Cummings.
Celebrating Makeda Silvera, Stephanie Martin, and 40 Years of Sister Vision.
September 25, 2025.
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario.
Register here: sistervision.carrd.co
September 25, 2025.
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario.
Register here: sistervision.carrd.co
September 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Celebrating Makeda Silvera, Stephanie Martin, and 40 Years of Sister Vision.
September 25, 2025.
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario.
Register here: sistervision.carrd.co
September 25, 2025.
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario.
Register here: sistervision.carrd.co
Congratulations to SX Salon's Creative Editor, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, on his newest publication entitled Algarabía.
Algarabía follows the journey of Cenex, a trans being who retrospectively narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf.
www.graywolfpress.org/books/algara...
Algarabía follows the journey of Cenex, a trans being who retrospectively narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf.
www.graywolfpress.org/books/algara...
September 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Congratulations to SX Salon's Creative Editor, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, on his newest publication entitled Algarabía.
Algarabía follows the journey of Cenex, a trans being who retrospectively narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf.
www.graywolfpress.org/books/algara...
Algarabía follows the journey of Cenex, a trans being who retrospectively narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf.
www.graywolfpress.org/books/algara...
The second annual Olive Lewin Distinguished Lecture will take place on September 11, 2025.
September 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The second annual Olive Lewin Distinguished Lecture will take place on September 11, 2025.
Read poems by John Robert Lee and Amílcar Peter Sanatan in sx salon 49. Both writers dedicate pieces to the Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist, Lorna Goodison.
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August 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Read poems by John Robert Lee and Amílcar Peter Sanatan in sx salon 49. Both writers dedicate pieces to the Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist, Lorna Goodison.
smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
In our latest issue of sx salon, Fabian M. Thomas reflects on his connections to Lorna Goodison and her work.
Read his full contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Read his full contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Miss Lorna an Me
here love and possibilitywithin a lit heart, shining out. — Lorna Goodison, “I Shall Light a Candle to Understanding in Thine Heart Which Shall Not Be Put Out”
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August 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In our latest issue of sx salon, Fabian M. Thomas reflects on his connections to Lorna Goodison and her work.
Read his full contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Read his full contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
For sx salon 49, Essah Cozett Díaz writes about women's agency and the influence of mothers in Lorna Goodison's poetry collection, I am Becoming My Mother.
Read Díaz critical contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Read Díaz critical contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
August 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
For sx salon 49, Essah Cozett Díaz writes about women's agency and the influence of mothers in Lorna Goodison's poetry collection, I am Becoming My Mother.
Read Díaz critical contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Read Díaz critical contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Kellie Magnus interviews Lorna Goodison for sx salon 49. Goodison, Jamaica's second post-independence poet laureate, reflects on her tenure and shares insights into the value of poetry and the poet laureate program.
Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
“What You Love Will Save You”
In 2017, Lorna Goodison became Jamaica’s second postindependence poet laureate, following the role’s revival with the installation of Mervyn Morris in 2014. In her three-year tenure, Goodison maintain...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Kellie Magnus interviews Lorna Goodison for sx salon 49. Goodison, Jamaica's second post-independence poet laureate, reflects on her tenure and shares insights into the value of poetry and the poet laureate program.
Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
In our recently released sx salon 49, Elizabeth Coggeshall offers critical insights into Lorna Goodison's intertextual engagement with the poetry of Dante Alighieri.
Read Coggeshall's full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Read Coggeshall's full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
August 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In our recently released sx salon 49, Elizabeth Coggeshall offers critical insights into Lorna Goodison's intertextual engagement with the poetry of Dante Alighieri.
Read Coggeshall's full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Read Coggeshall's full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Shannon Chen See reviews Yashika Graham's debut poetry collection. Read the full review in sx salon 49: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/revi...
August 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Shannon Chen See reviews Yashika Graham's debut poetry collection. Read the full review in sx salon 49: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/revi...
Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison.
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
August 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison.
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
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Caribbean Metamorphosis | liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 | Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025 | For more information, visit here: liquidblackness.com/news/liquid-...
June 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Caribbean Metamorphosis | liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 | Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025 | For more information, visit here: liquidblackness.com/news/liquid-...
In 2026, Postcolonial Text will release a special double-issue on the work of Pamela Mordecai. Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by September 15, 2025.
Complete CFP details here:
www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...
Complete CFP details here:
www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...
June 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In 2026, Postcolonial Text will release a special double-issue on the work of Pamela Mordecai. Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by September 15, 2025.
Complete CFP details here:
www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...
Complete CFP details here:
www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...
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Caribbean Queer Visualities (CQV) | Small Axe Project (@smallaxeproject.bsky.social) | Curated by David Scott, Erica Moiah James, and Nijah Cunningham | Access Free PDF Here: smallaxe.net/cqv/issue-01...
June 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Caribbean Queer Visualities (CQV) | Small Axe Project (@smallaxeproject.bsky.social) | Curated by David Scott, Erica Moiah James, and Nijah Cunningham | Access Free PDF Here: smallaxe.net/cqv/issue-01...
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West of West Indian is shortlisted for the 2025 Caricon Prize for Literature. If you are a believer in the project, consider casting a vote in support of the title. ☺️
awards.cari-con.org
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June 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
West of West Indian is shortlisted for the 2025 Caricon Prize for Literature. If you are a believer in the project, consider casting a vote in support of the title. ☺️
awards.cari-con.org
awards.cari-con.org
Where Oceans Join: Landscapes, Seascapes, Archipelagoes in Circum-Caribbean Ecologies
6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine
Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...
6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine
Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...
June 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Where Oceans Join: Landscapes, Seascapes, Archipelagoes in Circum-Caribbean Ecologies
6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine
Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...
6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine
Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...
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Join us as acclaimed writer Shani Mootoo reads from and discusses her latest collection of poetry, Oh Witness Dey! with Angelique V. Nixon.
🗓️24 June🕠5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St. Clair
✨ FREE and open to all!
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
🗓️24 June🕠5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St. Clair
✨ FREE and open to all!
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Join us as acclaimed writer Shani Mootoo reads from and discusses her latest collection of poetry, Oh Witness Dey! with Angelique V. Nixon.
🗓️24 June🕠5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St. Clair
✨ FREE and open to all!
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
🗓️24 June🕠5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St. Clair
✨ FREE and open to all!
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
In sx salon 48, Oriana Mejías Martínez @leors.bsky.social reviews two books on migration in the Caribbean: (i) Anthea Morrison’s New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives and (ii) Marisel C. Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art.
May 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In sx salon 48, Oriana Mejías Martínez @leors.bsky.social reviews two books on migration in the Caribbean: (i) Anthea Morrison’s New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives and (ii) Marisel C. Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art.
In sx salon 48, Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social reviews Oneka LaBennett’s Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond @nyupress.bsky.social.
May 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
In sx salon 48, Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social reviews Oneka LaBennett’s Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond @nyupress.bsky.social.
Announcing the launch of sx salon 48. The issue includes essays by Amandla Thomas-Johnson and Stéphane Martelly, reviews by Sasha Ann Panaram, Oriana Méjías Martinez, Maddi Chan and Linzey Corridon, poems by Letitia Marie Pratt, and stories by José Darío Martínez Milantchi and Alicia Valasse-Polius.
May 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Announcing the launch of sx salon 48. The issue includes essays by Amandla Thomas-Johnson and Stéphane Martelly, reviews by Sasha Ann Panaram, Oriana Méjías Martinez, Maddi Chan and Linzey Corridon, poems by Letitia Marie Pratt, and stories by José Darío Martínez Milantchi and Alicia Valasse-Polius.
The Journal of West Indian Literature is the 2025 recipient of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award. Congratulations @jwilonline.bsky.social
www.bocaslitfest.com/awards/henry...
www.bocaslitfest.com/awards/henry...
Bocas Henry Swanzy Award
The Bocas Henry Swanzy Award honors exceptional individuals who have made significant contributions to Caribbean literature.
www.bocaslitfest.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The Journal of West Indian Literature is the 2025 recipient of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award. Congratulations @jwilonline.bsky.social
www.bocaslitfest.com/awards/henry...
www.bocaslitfest.com/awards/henry...
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CFP: Decolonization & Global Justice | Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory | January 22-25, 2026 | University of Oregon | Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025 | For more information, visit here: decolonialphilosophies.blogspot.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
CFP: Decolonization & Global Justice | Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory | January 22-25, 2026 | University of Oregon | Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025 | For more information, visit here: decolonialphilosophies.blogspot.com
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“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.”
Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
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Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
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Poetry Written in the Margins of a Visa Application
reading Linzey Corridon at the intersection of border bureaucracy and soft cultural memory
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April 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.”
Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
substack.com/inbox/post/1...