It was a total pleasure and a privilege to be invited to speak at the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival last month. The event itself was a lush invitation into the ‘literary botánica’ of Caribbean and diasporic thought and expression, ‘where story met ritual and memory became medicine’.
Much gratitude to Lauren K. Alleyne and Kei Miller for such a rich discussion in THE ISLAND ISN’T SILENT: SOUND, SURVIVAL, AND THE SACRED, and also to Derron Sandy, Cooper Libre and Rosamond S. King, Kei Miller, Ras Atiba, Nadia Alexis and Carlos Andrés Gómez for their inspirational company at The Mouth of the Root: On Oral Tradition and Living Memory.