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Digital forum for innovative critical and creative explorations of Caribbean literature, broadly defined; a Small Axe literary platform http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 1
Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison.

Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · 27d
Celebrating Makeda Silvera, Stephanie Martin, and 40 Years of Sister Vision.

September 25, 2025.
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario.

Register here: sistervision.carrd.co
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Sep 5
Congratulations to SX Salon's Creative Editor, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, on his newest publication entitled Algarabía.

Algarabía follows the journey of Cenex, a trans being who retrospectively narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf.
www.graywolfpress.org/books/algara...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Sep 4
The second annual Olive Lewin Distinguished Lecture will take place on September 11, 2025.
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 24
Read Amílcar Peter Sanatan's poems here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
poems by Amílcar Peter Sanatan
Poet Mother (for Lorna Goodison) i pray i find a genre of truth               between lines              and speak with the same breath as yours  careful, cutting            always precise entitled by...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 24
Read John Robert Lee's poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Twelve
For Lorna Goodison
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 24
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.

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Photo credit: Marion Nelson and Allen Sherman
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 18
In our latest issue of sx salon, Fabian M. Thomas reflects on his connections to Lorna Goodison and her work.

Read his full contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
Miss Lorna an Me
here love and possibilitywithin a lit heart, shining out. — Lorna Goodison, “I Shall Light a Candle to Understanding in Thine Heart Which Shall Not Be Put Out”
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 14
For sx salon 49, Essah Cozett Díaz writes about women's agency and the influence of mothers in Lorna Goodison's poetry collection, I am Becoming My Mother.

Read Díaz critical contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 11
Kellie Magnus interviews Lorna Goodison for sx salon 49. Goodison, Jamaica's second post-independence poet laureate, reflects on her tenure and shares insights into the value of poetry and the poet laureate program.

Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...
“What You Love Will Save You”
In 2017, Lorna Goodison became Jamaica’s second postindependence poet laureate, following the role’s revival with the installation of Mervyn Morris in 2014. In her three-year tenure, Goodison maintain...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 7
In our recently released sx salon 49, Elizabeth Coggeshall offers critical insights into Lorna Goodison's intertextual engagement with the poetry of Dante Alighieri.

Read Coggeshall's full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 4
Shannon Chen See reviews Yashika Graham's debut poetry collection. Read the full review in sx salon 49: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/revi...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 1
Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison.

Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · Jun 23
Caribbean Metamorphosis | liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 | Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025 | For more information, visit here: liquidblackness.com/news/liquid-...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Jun 19
In 2026, Postcolonial Text will release a special double-issue on the work of Pamela Mordecai. Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by September 15, 2025.

Complete CFP details here:
www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...
Photo by Geoffrey Philip
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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · Jun 18
Caribbean Queer Visualities (CQV) | Small Axe Project (@smallaxeproject.bsky.social‬) | Curated by David Scott, Erica Moiah James, and Nijah Cunningham | Access Free PDF Here: smallaxe.net/cqv/issue-01...
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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · Jun 19
West of West Indian is shortlisted for the 2025 Caricon Prize for Literature. If you are a believer in the project, consider casting a vote in support of the title. ☺️

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Jun 18
Where Oceans Join: Landscapes, Seascapes, Archipelagoes in Circum-Caribbean Ecologies

6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine

Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...
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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · Jun 12
Join us as acclaimed writer Shani Mootoo reads from and discusses her latest collection of poetry, Oh Witness Dey! with Angelique V. Nixon.
🗓️24 June🕠5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St. Clair
✨ FREE and open to all!
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 21
Moreno’s and Morrison’s projects “collect and critique a corpus that expands our knowledge of Pan-Caribbean interrelations, and in turn, of the global relations formed through both South-North and South-South migrations.”

Read Oriana Mejías Martínez’s essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/revi...
Intersecting Pan-Caribbean Crossings
Migration patterns in the Caribbean have held significant importance for centuries, within the region and, consequently, with the continents that have maintained connections. The region has witnessed ...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 21
“the role of migration can return to being a transformative and generative process, considering the conditions of these movements that bring up issues related to race, gender, and economic standings.”
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 21
“Caribbean crossings were always present and have always been a part of Caribbean history” writes Mejías Martínez. And while the formation of borders and national identities complicate this history of crossings, ...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 21
In sx salon 48, Oriana Mejías Martínez @leors.bsky.social reviews two books on migration in the Caribbean: (i) Anthea Morrison’s New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives and (ii) Marisel C. Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art.
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 21
Moreno’s and Morrison’s books “collect and critique a corpus that expands our knowledge of Pan-Caribbean interrelations, and in turn, of the global relations formed through both South-North and South-South migrations.”

Read Oriana Mejías Martínez’s essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/revi...
Intersecting Pan-Caribbean Crossings
Migration patterns in the Caribbean have held significant importance for centuries, within the region and, consequently, with the continents that have maintained connections. The region has witnessed ...
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 21
“the role of migration can return to being a transformative and generative process, considering the conditions of these movements that bring up issues related to race, gender, and economic standings.”
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 21
“Caribbean crossings were always present and have always been a part of Caribbean history” writes Mejías Martínez. And while the formation of borders and national identities complicate this history of crossings, ...
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