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@sxsalon.bsky.social
Digital forum for innovative critical and creative explorations of Caribbean literature, broadly defined; a Small Axe literary platform
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sx salon 50 is now live! Our fiftieth issue features interviews and dialogues between scholars, writers, and artists followed by poetry and prose that honor Danielle Legros Georges. Read more on the latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
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Call for Manuscripts: Caribbean Series | Brill in collaboration with KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) | Series Editor: Sophie Maríñez | For more information, visit here: brill.com/display/seri...
February 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Call for Manuscripts: Caribbean Series | Brill in collaboration with KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) | Series Editor: Sophie Maríñez | For more information, visit here: brill.com/display/seri...
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📣February’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, upcoming events and workshops, awards/prizes, and January’s bestsellers at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social!
Read the Bulletin at: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...
#bocas2026
Read the Bulletin at: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...
#bocas2026
February 1, 2026 at 11:42 AM
📣February’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, upcoming events and workshops, awards/prizes, and January’s bestsellers at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social!
Read the Bulletin at: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...
#bocas2026
Read the Bulletin at: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...
#bocas2026
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🙌We're thrilled to welcome Jamaican-Canadian poet Lillian Allen, Poet Laureate of Toronto, to The Writers Centre!
📖Join us on Sat 21 Feb for readings and a conversation with Shivanee Ramlochan.
🕠5.30 pm
📍14 Alcazar St.
🆓️FREE and open to all
#bocas2026 @lillianallen.ca @novelniche.bsky.social
📖Join us on Sat 21 Feb for readings and a conversation with Shivanee Ramlochan.
🕠5.30 pm
📍14 Alcazar St.
🆓️FREE and open to all
#bocas2026 @lillianallen.ca @novelniche.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 10:06 PM
🙌We're thrilled to welcome Jamaican-Canadian poet Lillian Allen, Poet Laureate of Toronto, to The Writers Centre!
📖Join us on Sat 21 Feb for readings and a conversation with Shivanee Ramlochan.
🕠5.30 pm
📍14 Alcazar St.
🆓️FREE and open to all
#bocas2026 @lillianallen.ca @novelniche.bsky.social
📖Join us on Sat 21 Feb for readings and a conversation with Shivanee Ramlochan.
🕠5.30 pm
📍14 Alcazar St.
🆓️FREE and open to all
#bocas2026 @lillianallen.ca @novelniche.bsky.social
OPEN CALL: sx salon is seeking submissions that reflect on the ruinous effects of climate change on the Caribbean. More information can be found here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/subm...
📸: Gema Cortes/IOM “Destroyed buildings, stranded boats and broken poles due to Hurricane Beryl.”
📸: Gema Cortes/IOM “Destroyed buildings, stranded boats and broken poles due to Hurricane Beryl.”
January 23, 2026 at 7:10 PM
OPEN CALL: sx salon is seeking submissions that reflect on the ruinous effects of climate change on the Caribbean. More information can be found here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/subm...
📸: Gema Cortes/IOM “Destroyed buildings, stranded boats and broken poles due to Hurricane Beryl.”
📸: Gema Cortes/IOM “Destroyed buildings, stranded boats and broken poles due to Hurricane Beryl.”
sx salon honors the life of Surinamese-Dutch author, Astrid Roemer, who transitioned on January 8, 2026. Read the homage to Roemer by Repeating Islands here: repeatingislands.com/2026/01/14/w...
January 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM
sx salon honors the life of Surinamese-Dutch author, Astrid Roemer, who transitioned on January 8, 2026. Read the homage to Roemer by Repeating Islands here: repeatingislands.com/2026/01/14/w...
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🎉We’re bringing Carnival energy to BYOBB, featuring artist & creative entrepreneur Che Lovelace!
RSVP at bit.ly/BYOBBjan2026
Let’s talk Carnival, art, writing, and the Caribbean voices that have shaped Che’s work.
🗓️29 Jan, 5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St.
#bocas2026 #byobb2026
RSVP at bit.ly/BYOBBjan2026
Let’s talk Carnival, art, writing, and the Caribbean voices that have shaped Che’s work.
🗓️29 Jan, 5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St.
#bocas2026 #byobb2026
January 6, 2026 at 3:26 PM
🎉We’re bringing Carnival energy to BYOBB, featuring artist & creative entrepreneur Che Lovelace!
RSVP at bit.ly/BYOBBjan2026
Let’s talk Carnival, art, writing, and the Caribbean voices that have shaped Che’s work.
🗓️29 Jan, 5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St.
#bocas2026 #byobb2026
RSVP at bit.ly/BYOBBjan2026
Let’s talk Carnival, art, writing, and the Caribbean voices that have shaped Che’s work.
🗓️29 Jan, 5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St.
#bocas2026 #byobb2026
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THE NEW/OLD IMPERIALISM: Venezuela and the Current Caribbean | Friday, January 9th - 4PM EST | Claudia Jones School for Political Education | Watch here: bit.ly/cjscar
January 7, 2026 at 1:42 PM
THE NEW/OLD IMPERIALISM: Venezuela and the Current Caribbean | Friday, January 9th - 4PM EST | Claudia Jones School for Political Education | Watch here: bit.ly/cjscar
For writers in the Toronto and GTA area, check out the Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase hosted by Diaspora Dialogues from December 12-14. More information and full schedule here: diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
Diaspora Dialogues Presents the 2025 Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase - Diaspora Dialogues
The Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase is a three-day celebration of Caribbean voices and their influence on Canadian literature, art, and culture. Over the course of the showcase, audiences are inv...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
For writers in the Toronto and GTA area, check out the Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase hosted by Diaspora Dialogues from December 12-14. More information and full schedule here: diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
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Focusing on Frederick Douglass’s “A Trip to Hayti” (1861) and the first installment of James Theodore Holly’s “Thoughts on Hayti” (1859), this essay examines the strategic idealization of Haiti in mid-nineteenth-century African American propaganda.
Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/37wzebzz
Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/37wzebzz
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Focusing on Frederick Douglass’s “A Trip to Hayti” (1861) and the first installment of James Theodore Holly’s “Thoughts on Hayti” (1859), this essay examines the strategic idealization of Haiti in mid-nineteenth-century African American propaganda.
Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/37wzebzz
Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/37wzebzz
From December 9-11, Kelly Baker Josephs will be in conversation with three Caribbean playwrights whose work have been published in Manchineel + Seagrape!
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
From December 9-11, Kelly Baker Josephs will be in conversation with three Caribbean playwrights whose work have been published in Manchineel + Seagrape!
sx salon honors the life of Sonia Mills – journalist, playwright, and founder of the Mary Seacole Foundation. Mills, in dialogue with Anna Kasafi Perkins and Patrick S. Dallas, contributed to sx salon 42’s special issue on Cliff Lashley. Read their conversation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
sx salon honors the life of Sonia Mills – journalist, playwright, and founder of the Mary Seacole Foundation. Mills, in dialogue with Anna Kasafi Perkins and Patrick S. Dallas, contributed to sx salon 42’s special issue on Cliff Lashley. Read their conversation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
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🔥Over 600 students from 13 secondary schools across Trinidad and Tobago were exposed to the power of reading, writing and sharing their stories through the We Lit School Tour 2025. .../2
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🔥Over 600 students from 13 secondary schools across Trinidad and Tobago were exposed to the power of reading, writing and sharing their stories through the We Lit School Tour 2025. .../2
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This essay describes Claude McKay’s historical imagination: the history of former and current empires; the influence of economic systems on how time is experienced in the West and the Caribbean; and art’s historical function as a portal to lost customs.
Read @ Duke, tinyurl.com/3pd257u8
Read @ Duke, tinyurl.com/3pd257u8
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This essay describes Claude McKay’s historical imagination: the history of former and current empires; the influence of economic systems on how time is experienced in the West and the Caribbean; and art’s historical function as a portal to lost customs.
Read @ Duke, tinyurl.com/3pd257u8
Read @ Duke, tinyurl.com/3pd257u8
“we dwelt / in the divinity / of our voice one spiritbody”
In “Morning’s Avalanche of Light”, Keith Jones writes an elegy and praise for Danielle Legros Georges and her gifts as a poet, seer, editor, translator, and friend. Read the poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In “Morning’s Avalanche of Light”, Keith Jones writes an elegy and praise for Danielle Legros Georges and her gifts as a poet, seer, editor, translator, and friend. Read the poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“we dwelt / in the divinity / of our voice one spiritbody”
In “Morning’s Avalanche of Light”, Keith Jones writes an elegy and praise for Danielle Legros Georges and her gifts as a poet, seer, editor, translator, and friend. Read the poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In “Morning’s Avalanche of Light”, Keith Jones writes an elegy and praise for Danielle Legros Georges and her gifts as a poet, seer, editor, translator, and friend. Read the poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
“I had lost a poet and guide.”
In his essay, “Writing Haiti and the Caribbean Present”, @amilcarsanatan.bsky.social reflects on his correspondences with Danielle Legros Georges, her mentorship, her writing, her vision for poetry, and her care. Read the full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In his essay, “Writing Haiti and the Caribbean Present”, @amilcarsanatan.bsky.social reflects on his correspondences with Danielle Legros Georges, her mentorship, her writing, her vision for poetry, and her care. Read the full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“I had lost a poet and guide.”
In his essay, “Writing Haiti and the Caribbean Present”, @amilcarsanatan.bsky.social reflects on his correspondences with Danielle Legros Georges, her mentorship, her writing, her vision for poetry, and her care. Read the full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In his essay, “Writing Haiti and the Caribbean Present”, @amilcarsanatan.bsky.social reflects on his correspondences with Danielle Legros Georges, her mentorship, her writing, her vision for poetry, and her care. Read the full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
“Yet this skin, / Sugary brown, / And wet with the ocean’s tears, / Remembers…”
In her poem, “Hostage (for Danielle Legros Georges)”, Malica S. Willie engages with two of Georges’s poems that explore identity and Haitian society's resilience. Read Willie’s poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In her poem, “Hostage (for Danielle Legros Georges)”, Malica S. Willie engages with two of Georges’s poems that explore identity and Haitian society's resilience. Read Willie’s poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“Yet this skin, / Sugary brown, / And wet with the ocean’s tears, / Remembers…”
In her poem, “Hostage (for Danielle Legros Georges)”, Malica S. Willie engages with two of Georges’s poems that explore identity and Haitian society's resilience. Read Willie’s poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In her poem, “Hostage (for Danielle Legros Georges)”, Malica S. Willie engages with two of Georges’s poems that explore identity and Haitian society's resilience. Read Willie’s poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
“sometimes every breath is battered with heavy sleep, and I / see my mom again, grass spread out under solar gold”
Conor Bracken translates Jean D’Amerique’s poem, “douleur-fleuve” in "river-misery". Read the poem in translation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
Conor Bracken translates Jean D’Amerique’s poem, “douleur-fleuve” in "river-misery". Read the poem in translation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“sometimes every breath is battered with heavy sleep, and I / see my mom again, grass spread out under solar gold”
Conor Bracken translates Jean D’Amerique’s poem, “douleur-fleuve” in "river-misery". Read the poem in translation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
Conor Bracken translates Jean D’Amerique’s poem, “douleur-fleuve” in "river-misery". Read the poem in translation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
“when the moon closes / her eye around the shroud / they are filled / with hunger.” – “blessed are the Lovergirls”
In “blessed are the Lovergirls” and “Note #888, ad infinitum”, Letitia Marie Pratt explores love, beauty, and desire with softness. Read her poems here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In “blessed are the Lovergirls” and “Note #888, ad infinitum”, Letitia Marie Pratt explores love, beauty, and desire with softness. Read her poems here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“when the moon closes / her eye around the shroud / they are filled / with hunger.” – “blessed are the Lovergirls”
In “blessed are the Lovergirls” and “Note #888, ad infinitum”, Letitia Marie Pratt explores love, beauty, and desire with softness. Read her poems here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In “blessed are the Lovergirls” and “Note #888, ad infinitum”, Letitia Marie Pratt explores love, beauty, and desire with softness. Read her poems here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
OPEN CALL: sx salon is seeking writing (scholarly, creative, and otherwise) that reflects on the ruinous effects of climate change on the Caribbean. More information can be found here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/subm...
We look forward to reading your work!
📸 Matias Delacroix/AP
We look forward to reading your work!
📸 Matias Delacroix/AP
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
OPEN CALL: sx salon is seeking writing (scholarly, creative, and otherwise) that reflects on the ruinous effects of climate change on the Caribbean. More information can be found here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/subm...
We look forward to reading your work!
📸 Matias Delacroix/AP
We look forward to reading your work!
📸 Matias Delacroix/AP
“May we be so honored to meet you again, in that place where stories rest.”
@omegadenyse.bsky.social's poem, “Keen Eyes”, pays homage to the care, expertise, and wisdom of Danielle Legros Georges. Read the poem in its entirety here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
@omegadenyse.bsky.social's poem, “Keen Eyes”, pays homage to the care, expertise, and wisdom of Danielle Legros Georges. Read the poem in its entirety here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“May we be so honored to meet you again, in that place where stories rest.”
@omegadenyse.bsky.social's poem, “Keen Eyes”, pays homage to the care, expertise, and wisdom of Danielle Legros Georges. Read the poem in its entirety here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
@omegadenyse.bsky.social's poem, “Keen Eyes”, pays homage to the care, expertise, and wisdom of Danielle Legros Georges. Read the poem in its entirety here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In “Heal a Population Still Reeling from… Enslavement and Violence”, @websdercorneille.bsky.social and @evanauguste.bsky.social discuss Dr. Louis Mars’s impact on ethnopsychiatry and recognize his work in mental health-related fields. Read their conversation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In “Heal a Population Still Reeling from… Enslavement and Violence”, @websdercorneille.bsky.social and @evanauguste.bsky.social discuss Dr. Louis Mars’s impact on ethnopsychiatry and recognize his work in mental health-related fields. Read their conversation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
"maybe absence is the certain / apotheosis of presence”
Connected by their shared Caribbean bilingual culture, John Robert Lee celebrates the life and talent of Danielle Legros Georges in "Maman". Read the poem cycle here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
Connected by their shared Caribbean bilingual culture, John Robert Lee celebrates the life and talent of Danielle Legros Georges in "Maman". Read the poem cycle here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"maybe absence is the certain / apotheosis of presence”
Connected by their shared Caribbean bilingual culture, John Robert Lee celebrates the life and talent of Danielle Legros Georges in "Maman". Read the poem cycle here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
Connected by their shared Caribbean bilingual culture, John Robert Lee celebrates the life and talent of Danielle Legros Georges in "Maman". Read the poem cycle here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
“In architecture, you have to be precise […] And I think I carry that precision of thought into the poetry.”
Shrinagar Francis interviews Trinidadian architect and poet, Fawzia Muradali Kane in “A River Most Foul”. Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
Shrinagar Francis interviews Trinidadian architect and poet, Fawzia Muradali Kane in “A River Most Foul”. Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
A River Most Foul
I was the coward. The others were calm. They knew what they had to do. Our cousin Zen was there, she had done this before. Zen is a happy person. She made us giggle in the waiting room, while the fune...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“In architecture, you have to be precise […] And I think I carry that precision of thought into the poetry.”
Shrinagar Francis interviews Trinidadian architect and poet, Fawzia Muradali Kane in “A River Most Foul”. Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
Shrinagar Francis interviews Trinidadian architect and poet, Fawzia Muradali Kane in “A River Most Foul”. Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
“there are pages we write that smell of nothing / but back home.”
In “water children”, Morgan Christie reflects on Danielle Legros Georges’s mentorship and their connections to Haiti and the Caribbean. Read Christie's poem in its entirety here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In “water children”, Morgan Christie reflects on Danielle Legros Georges’s mentorship and their connections to Haiti and the Caribbean. Read Christie's poem in its entirety here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“there are pages we write that smell of nothing / but back home.”
In “water children”, Morgan Christie reflects on Danielle Legros Georges’s mentorship and their connections to Haiti and the Caribbean. Read Christie's poem in its entirety here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
In “water children”, Morgan Christie reflects on Danielle Legros Georges’s mentorship and their connections to Haiti and the Caribbean. Read Christie's poem in its entirety here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...
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The award-winning journal Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 78 is now available, read it online: buff.ly/xTwnWC6
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November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The award-winning journal Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 78 is now available, read it online: buff.ly/xTwnWC6
Learn more, sign up for issue alerts, and subscribe: buff.ly/3yk2Wny
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