Rainy and dark. First proper dhalpourie roti in a hot minute. You’d think that there were more bicycles than walkers. The connection with young scholars and artists in the Dutch context was a necessary refresher.

"...'Doh do dat, because your hairline receding too, horse.' In that moment, that 'celebrity power' was leveled. None of this was about a ‘stream’. This was about a generation and culture talking back." amilcarsanatan.com/dont-miss-th...

I’m not paying 2,90 💶 for one five finger. But, Autumn was beautiful until it rained every day.

Making food, re-making home

Time in the kitchen is time well spent 👨🏿‍🍳

Sommarboken

In the Caribbean we do not have “summers” in the traditional sense. We have the “July-August holidays.” This was my first Nordic summer. Beusorful flowers blooming everywhere. After doing work in the “field” in my home country, I reconnected with friends.

"...the past is never available. There is no second round.” - Eudine Barriteau

When your cousins and aunty don’t know you made a pass by their house and did an entire photo shoot dey? 😂😘🩵 it’s a love.

I visit the Morvant Lookout often. Back when I worked in Port-of-Spain, I’d go there for lunch to buy a “liquid” corn soup for ten dollars. I love corn soup, but my favourite version is without corn! Perhaps I really wanted a cup of dhal…

The community I first joined as guest, then resident, and then walking ethnographer. Bamboo Settlement #2 is a small village wired into the global trade of cars and parts, where mechanics bridge the distance between Japan and Trinidad.

I submitted my first entry to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2016. Ten years later, one of my entries made the longlist. My story's title was "Half Roti Is Not A Life." commonwealthfoundation.com/cwprize-long...

Many thanks to the project team of the "Imagining Futures in the Margins of the State" at the University of Helsinki and our PI, Dr. Maarit Forde. www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/...

The Derek Walcott Foundation hosted a workshop with Ishion Hutchinson on Ekphrastic poetry in Port-of-Spain. Peter Doig's 'Le Loupgarou' was an interesting visual tale/tail of transformation. The poem is now in Moko Magazine's arms, "The Lagahoo as a Boy." mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/l...

Critical reflections on ethnographic writing and spoken word from the 'Imagining Futures in the Margins of the State' project. "Anthro-poets from East Port-of-Spain’s Yards: Spoken Word as Arts-based Methodology for Ethnography" iyaric.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/iy...

"Big Speech, Small Island: Tobago’s Speech Band in Spoken Word and Oral Traditions" was written as a correction of the record and of my own limitations. Big respect to the people of Tobago and their influence on the spoken word movement in Trinidad & Tobago. iyaric.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/iy...

You end up reading Rohlehr and Carter in winter. You carry bell hooks in your bag while walking through art galleries. Andre Tanker’s “I went away/ah leave and ah come back home” changed from a timeless song to a promise to yourself. Find your way. 📸: Helsinki Poetry Connection

Lecture to Alicia Haynes's undergraduate gender class at University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, March 19, 2026. The session was "Men and Masculinities: Creative Literature and Film." We did a review of Ravi B, Shaggy, Dexta Daps, Rebel Sixx and Roger Alexis' Santana.

Poetry reading delivered at the Book Launch of "Caribbean Men in the Arts: Demystifying Masculinities with Essays, Interviews, Poetry and Stories," edited by Opal Adisa and Dr-Keino Senior at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, April 1, 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeAN...

Brief remarks delivered at the Book Launch of "Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities" edited by Dalea Bean and Verene A. Shepherd at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, March 19, 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm56...

Thank you Helsinki Poetry Connection for creating space for 🇹🇹 spoken word

LeBron James 28 8 7 🫡 Lord, bless me with longevity and the discipline for decades 🔥

Just finished watching the Ronaldinho documentary on Netflix. You get an up close look at his rise and the inevitable decline. You also see the power of his family. The scenes with his mother are moving.

Update 8:30pm: Found and will be reunited with family. ———————————————————

Greetings community. My family could use your help: if you have seen or have any information about Patricia D’Andrade, please contact TTPS. She is 92 years old. We are all hoping that she can return to her home safely.

Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2026 list announced. From the Caribbean region, we have 1 author from Guyana and 5 from Trinidad and Tobago out of 7,806 entires in the Commonwealth. Power to all the authors.

“Feminists have a political responsibility to critique the formation of new ideas that maintain old hegemonies.” – Eudine Barriteau (2003, 79)

In May 2026, a decade will have passed since the national discussion on ending child marriage in Trinidad and Tobago ignited. Calls to amend the Marriage Act alongside deep soul searching on various religious Marriage Acts were placed on the front burner.

I participated in a Roundtable for the launch of the IYARIC Journal Special Issue, "Rebuilding the Ruins: Contemporary Performing Arts in Latin America and the Caribbean," edited by Keisha Bell. You can get the full issue here: iyaric.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/iy...

For World Poetry Day, I returned to the Kyk-Over-Al special issue on Martin Carter (May 1993). His address,"A Free Community of Valid Persons," delivered at the University of Guyana in 1974, continues to make me think about my movement between being a "poems man" and "institution man."

"The clothes we wear to bed at night to sleep is just pajamas The flesh we roam this earth in is a blessing, not a promise I bow with those who bow to the Creator and pay homage" - Jay Electronica, A.P.I.D.T.A

Sleep well, father. March 15, 2015

"If I'm dependent, then I'm not free." - José Mujica

One of the Caribbean’s greatest 20th century victories was abolishing the legal status of the "bastard" child. For generations, "illegitimacy" was used to marginalise children. That label was born from economic hardship, complex social norms, and a history of sexual violence.

“It is the problem of this era, the way the ever-changing present seems to render the past irrelevant and, as a consequence, the dislocation of the reader for whom the question becomes not merely ‘where is here?’ but ‘what is now?’” - Gordon Rohlehr

“So I write, exhausted, this closure of cycles, this steady perfection of all our fables. I write the end of yesterday and watch the omen of tomorrow unfold in this strange shattering of today. Is I, Bookman…keeping the fate, trodding still the broken path toward nothing.” - Gordon Rohlehr

Peggy Antrobus is a Caribbean daughter with an illustrious career in community-building, academia and international development. She is a figure in the global women's rights movements and helped build the blocks of Caribbean feminism + our regional gender mechanisms.

In my ongoing celebration of the living legend Merle Hodge, I give respect to her + all Caribbean women authors on International Women's Day. What was Caribbean society set to gain when Caribbean women gave their imagination in fiction writing? 🧵

"Listen, pay attention [to] every word. Every magical moment is a poem, is a lyric. The way she walks is a lyric. The way he talks is a lyric." - David Rudder (2022)

"When people say, 'you write great poetry.' Because I listened to the people. The nuts lady had something to say. You know? And I have to pay respects to my first university, better known as Freetown, Belmont." - David Rudder(2022)

"I went away Ah leave and ah come back home Ah come back to stay Ah must see meh way" - André Tanker, Back Home

"americana, antillana, boricua, para SIEMPRE." - Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

Thank you to the Commonwealth Alliance of Youth Workers’ Associations for this recognition of my contribution to youth work in the Caribbean & Americas Region. More heart, more space, more recognition of the self in the other, less ego. We only win with love.

Tka Pinnock and I co-organised "Future Orientations: Canada-Finland Symposium for Emerging Scholars in Caribbean Studies Research." The symposium brought together 20+ scholars, researchers and activists to discuss new directions in Caribbean Studies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSjb...

My chapter, "Reflections on Men's Organising to End Gender-based Violence in the Caribbean," takes stock of my understandings, feelings and lessons learnt engaging Caribbean men and boys for gender equality 'all ova de place'. www.uwipress.com/978976658028...

I've always wanted to have creative works published in Callaloo Journal. My two poems, "Sunday Morning, Sea Lots" and "Funeral of a Zesser," have found a home alongside other literary works. muse.jhu.edu/article/980700

Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival built a stage for me to walk listeners through carnival in spoken word. If you tune in, you will hear calypso, soca, Midnight Robber talk, and the creative imagination of a Caribbean people in hypercolour. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I had a lovely time with Alexandria Miller discussing the regional context of Hair Codes + Grooming Policies in Secondary Schools in the Caribbean. This is not a theoretical topic for me. episodes.strictlyfactspod.com/1562981/epis...

"Take me to the river, Take me to the sea, Wash over me, Music, Wash over me. Take me to the river, take me to the river, Wash over me, Music, wash over me." - Freetown Collective

"Let me at least fail at my life. Think, they say patiently, we could make you famous again. Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present. Help me to find the heft of these days. That the nights will be full enough and my heart feral." -Jack Gilbert