Thank you to the authors who contributed interviews and dialogues to this issue: Rachel Mordecai | Kelly Baker Josephs | @amilcarsanatan.bsky.social | Marsha Massiah | Shrinagar Francis | Fawzia Muradali Kane | @websdercorneille.bsky.social | @evanauguste.bsky.social

And our gratitude goes to the authors for sharing poetry and prose: @amilcarsanatan.bsky.social | @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social | Morgan Christie | John Robert Lee | @omegadenyse.bsky.social | Letitia Marie Pratt | Malica S. Willie | Conor Bracken | Keith Jones

“it is better to speak / remembering / we were never meant to survive." - Audre Lorde

La connaissance poétique naît du grand silence de la connaissance scientifique - Aimé Césaire (1944)

We invite interdisciplinary proposals that probe “UNTITLED” as a site of colonial and imperial violence, a frame for creativity and resistance, and a category to make visible contemporary and ongoing vulnerabilities and dis/possessions. See call here: iyaric.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/iy...

"Ours are not cities in the accepted sense, but no one wants them to be. They dictate their own proportions, their own definitions in particular places..." - Derek Walcott

“Little rooms — great things start in little rooms. That’s it.” - André 3000

"Every time that I look in the mirror All these lines on my face getting clearer The past is gone Oh, it went by like dusk to dawn Isn't that the way? Everybody's got their dues in life to pay" - Aerosmith 🎵🩵📝

Ten years since my old man’s passing. I used to think I couldn’t go a day without remembering him. But, you do over time. You even forget key dates. Most of the sadness goes. But there is a space that remains.

In Form 3, I was part of a debate team discussing Trinidad and Tobago's role in CARICOM. The opposing team was driven by more energetic, but narrowly nationalist points. Form 3E was defeated by Form 3D (principally because of Froggy's shenanigans). 🧵

"I, who walk through the mud of self-hate myself, hate myself walk through the mud of self-hate myself, by myself" - Muhammad Muwakil, "I Am"

240,000+ people without electricity at this time in Jamaica. 🇯🇲 What we build after this must be different. Caribbean countries need to envision a new political project for this climate. Jah know.

🇹🇹🔊 Ting For De Road: I was invited to deliver a keynote address to open the Dutch Black Scholar and Expert Conference 2025 at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. www.iss.nl/en/events/du...

Nice news 🙂 I was awarded a 2024/2025 fellowship from the Journal of International Women's Studies. My research and arts-based project: "Comrade Bev: The State, Womanhood and Revolutionary Party Politics in Jamaica" vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/scholar...

My book review of Rajiv Mohabir's latest poetry collection, Seabeast, is out in Androit Journal. "This book unifies marine and human life with the psychological consciousness of Indian descendants as they navigate the currents of history." theadroitjournal.org/2025/09/22/a...

"3 Canticles of Light (Poems in Memory of Father Makhan)" was published in The Caribbean Writer. Respect to Saint Lucian John R. Lee for proselytising through literary form in canticles. And, blessings to the major priest, the late Father Makhan. True servant of the poor and their liberation.

Three poems, "For Alton Ellis," "Night Shift" and "Postcard: Hope Gardens II," were published in PREE. I appreciate the editorial feedback by Loretta Collins Klobah to improve the work. My heart goes out to the people of and in Jamaica at this time. preelit.com/2025/09/14/f...

Many thanks to the editors of the Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies for holding space for my poetry. It was also a blessing to share some of the ethnographic poetry that I'd written about my time in Central and Bamboo Settlement No. 2, Trinidad. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Looking forward to sharing and exchanging with our colleagues at Edna Manley College, Jamaica tomorrow! Deneka Thomas, Darron James and I will present "Quotidian Oralities: Podcast Ethnography in Urban Trinidad and Tobago." Now see we is 3 Rasta! Respect the dread!

You come to kill a man, kick down the door and shoot an 8 year old child? Jah know yes.

D’Angelo 😭😭 🕊️

Sleep well,🕊️ well, Diane Keaton. What an amazing career on screen 📺 🩵

17 murders in 7 days 🙏🏿 deliver us from this hell. I could post pictures of those I’ve lost. But, what is there to gain? Only friends and family carry the grief 😔

On this day in 🇹🇹: Politics: 😗💨🛒🛍️💭 = 🗳️

RIP Bernard Julien. Your legacy lives in the popular memory of people in T&T and the Caribbean. I appreciate the statement by Windies Cricket.

"How beautiful cemeteries are…“Where people can read her epitaph.” Where the name and the date remain, a voice that says: I was here, now I’m gone. Maybe no one knows my name anymore, but someday someone will remember me." - Mariana Enriquez (2025)

WI bowled out for 83 by Nepal. Chicken curry curry chicken nuttin when is time to play serious cricket 🏏

Clapping like you in a cricket match and not in a diplomatic forum. My prayer is that people learn from this, make some decisions about future leadership and chart a way forward. But it cyah be like dis

More than 4,000 homicides in Haiti so far this year. 1 million + displaced in the crisis.

T&T's appropriation of the CARICOM "Zone of Peace" language for local audiences is a harmful maneuver. It distorts the framework's core aim: affirming Caribbean sovereignty, resisting nuclear and arms proliferation, and prioritising diplomatic dialogue where there is conflict.

There are too many folks, including ministers of government, who do not appreciate that International Relations and Diplomacy are fields that influence our social and economic development.

Oui Papa. I just discovered that my 2018 TEDx talk, "How Masculinity Becomes a Weapon" was curated and included in the TED library. Respect to Dennise Demming, Keita Demming and coach, Richard Demming for the opportunity to contribute in TEDxPortofSpain. www.ted.com/talks/amilca...

I just finished watching the Dame Dash interview on Breakfast Club. I really wish for him a healing journey where he sees personhood beyond racialised capitalist euphoria.

There is a hair surgeon somewhere between 🇹🇹 and 🇹🇷 doing nasty work on some of our politicians’ heads nationally. And I don’t like it.

It's quite amusing how after I make critical social commentary posts, I've been getting a lot of random comments on my thread and friend requests from profiles that have 19 or 112 friends and a display picture of a lion. I wish they trolled my foodie and parang posts with the same urgency.

Love, Death & Robots. Lovely anthology. Just got on to it. Zima Blue was beautiful.

"Maybe I am going to live forever. Or, maybe this is one last dream, before dying." - The Very Pulse of the Machine

One day I will create an estate of poems, cocoa and flowers in your name. Happy birthday mummy 🌺❤️

Enjoying my time in the kitchen.

S/o to Lakshmi Girls cafeteria fries. The white paper pack had to be for the oil but it was special. 🍟

“A society without the creative arts is a cultural desert …I wouldcommend to our statement that they put a lot more money into the creative artsdepartment of our secondary schools." - Arthur Lewis

"It is no longer a secret that England made its colonies just as much as the colonies made England." - Anton Allahar (2005, 293)

Excellent work by the Jamaica Debates Commission. Impressive performance by party leaders. Strong discussion about their criticisms and proposals. Some bacchanal moments too. But, respectful. Tense and dem eh no fren. But, the public is better for it. 🇹🇹 we still playing catch up?

Jamaica in 2012, debt to GDP was 147%. Some people really don’t appreciate what it means to govern and “develop” in a wicked and narrow fiscal space. Austerity measures and a bipartisan commitment to debt repayment have almost halved this in 2025. But, Jah. Who feels it knows it, Lord.

Bounty so lyrical he make bad man life sound easy 😭😭😂❤️‍🔥 🇯🇲

"But thought in reality spaces itself out into the world." — Edouard Glissant

Read Amílcar Peter Sanatan's poems here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...

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...

Well done, Jamaica Debates Commission! Well organised social development forum. Hopefully more in the Caribbean follow.

Easy reading to call it a night. Love you, mama 😘