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Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890 [1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.. Born in Jamaica, McKay first travelled to the United States to attend college, and encountered W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk which stimulated McKay's interest in political involvement.
Claude McKay was born in Jamaica in 1889. He moved to the United States in 1912, and after attending several schools, settled in New York City. He began to publish more poetry pseudonymously (having first published several collections in Jamaica). McKay's poetry was generally well received, particularly "To the White Fiends". [2]
He was educated in Jamaica, the United States and England. Jones remains the most accomplished Jamaican international screenwriter to date. His poetry, especially 'The Song of the Banana Man', is widely anthologised and his output as a playwright for theatre and television spans four decades.
Sinclair's poems have been published in various journals, including Poetry, [8] The Kenyon Review, [9] The New Yorker, [10] and Granta. [11] She wrote Catacombs, a chapbook of poems and essays, during a one-year return to Jamaica following her graduation from Bennington. [5] It was released by Argos Books in 2011.
A founder of the Poetry League of Jamaica in 1923, McFarlane compiled several anthologies and published five collections of poetry. He was the first Jamaican financial secretary. [3] McFarlane was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 1953, and held the title until his death. [4]
Mervyn Eustace Morris OM (born 21 February 1937) [1] is a poet, writer, editor and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.His poetry is well respected throughout the Caribbean, which has consistently ranked him among the top West Indian poets.
Caribbean poetry is vast and rapidly evolving field of poetry written by people from the Caribbean region and the diaspora. Caribbean poetry generally refers to a myriad of poetic forms, spanning epic , lyrical verse, prose poems , dramatic poetry and oral poetry , composed in Caribbean territories regardless of language.
Jamaican Thomas MacDermot (1870–1933) is credited with fostering the creation of Jamaican literature. According to critic Michael Hughes, MacDermot was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture," [2] and his Becka's Buckra Baby [3] as the beginning of modern Caribbean literature.