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Martinique poet Aimé Césaire in 2003. 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.
Since the mid-1970s, Caribbean poetry has gained increasing visibility with the publication in Britain and North America of several anthologies. Over the decades the canon has shifted and expanded, drawing both on oral and literary traditions and including more women poets and politically charged works. Caribbean writers, performance poets ...
Caribbean women writers (19 C, 8 P) A. Anguillan writers (1 C, 2 P) Antigua and Barbuda writers (3 C, 6 P) Aruban writers (4 C, 6 P) B. Bahamian writers (5 C, 6 P)
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.
Juan Boria, Afro-Caribbean poet. Boria, also known as the Negro Verse Pharaoh, was a poet known for his Afro-Caribbean poetry. [31] Gerson Borrero, journalist, radio host and TV commentator in New York City. He has been editor-at-large of City & State NY and editor-in-chief of El Diario/La Prensa [32]
Ernesto Cardenal is a poet, Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Sandinista Regime. Karly Gaitán Morales is a Nicaraguan film historian and writer. See also: List of Nicaraguan writers
Donna Hemans, author of "Tea By the Sea" ushers in Caribbean Heritage month with five timely books that reveal the depth and variety of this region’s writers. Caribbean Writers You Need to Read ...
This is a list of notable writers from Central America. Belize. Zee Edgell; Kalilah Enríquez; George Gabb; Samuel Alfred Haynes; Evan X Hyde; Corinth Morter Lewis;