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At the end of 2017 I was pleased to have work published at 3:AM...

At the end of 2017 I was pleased to have work published at 3:AM Magazine. ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ was selected by the incredible editor and poet SJ Fowler for the 20th edition of the magazine’s Poem Brut series. The visual poem references Marcel Broodthaers’ homage to Mallarmé, Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard. Woa just got dizzy typing that. Anyhow, all this to say MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you!

Pleased to have new poetry in Hawaiʻi Review 87. Something about...

Pleased to have new poetry in Hawaiʻi Review 87. Something about this publication, with its manifold sections and chapbooks, seems to suggest that chain of rugged volcanic islands, their beaches of red, black and green sand. All spilled out of the package when it arrived last week. I’ve enjoyed being transported.

Thank you LynleyShimat Lys and Marley Aiu.

They left messages for each other in the visitor logs of art...

They left messages for each other in the visitor logs of art galleries. They were careful. They were never in the same room together. Each day was another day. Each place had a designated function. In the logs, simple instructions were left. They signed using fake names. Their comments sometimes puzzled the art world. Until all the galleries on the island fell. And then they had reason.

— from ‘Yes’ #PitchLake

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#poetry #poem #caribbeanpoetry #caribbean #books #TrinidadandTobago #trinidad #prosepoem #breezeblocks #wall (at Woodbrook, Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad And Tobago)

“I thought it was him and could not stop staring. He smiled...

“I thought it was him and could not stop staring. He smiled back. Afterwards, I realised it was the wrong person. But when next he saw me, he remembered our last encounter and so smiled again and came forward again. I smiled back. For years now we’ve been friends.” — from ‘Mistaken Identity’ #PITCHLAKE

#poetry #tobago #TrinidadandTobago #literature #instagrampoetry #poem #prosepoem #beach #sea #coconuttrees #caribbean #caribbeanpoetry (at Tobago)

…until then, write it in sand #PITCHLAKE #poetry #tobago...

…until then, write it in sand

#PITCHLAKE #poetry #tobago #beach #sky #sea #palms #selfie (at Tobago)

at Trinidad and Tobago

at Trinidad and Tobago

A bad rhyme I will be. Fuck me. —from ‘Catullus in Libya’....

A bad rhyme I will be. Fuck me. —from ‘Catullus in Libya’. Poetry from PITCH LAKE is featured in the new anthology on Catullus from Sidekick Books, ‘Bad Kid Catullus’, a delicious assemblage of poetry, collage, crosswords and crossovers heralding the scabrous, self-contradictory poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus.

#catullus #poetry #poetryofinstagram #pitchlake #poetrycommunity #literature #literaturecommunity #classical #books #bookdesign #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #explicitlyrics #roman #classicalpoetry #translation #bookart #concretepoetry (at Rome, Italy)

Each leaf was a word Langston never said,the trees his...

Each leaf was a word Langston never said,

the trees his unwritten rhymes. — from ‘Langston Hughes in Trinidad’

So honored to have an image from my visual sequence for ‘Langston Hughes in Trinidad’ on the cover of the Asian American Literary Review. The special North/South issue focuses on new poetry by Canadian, Caribbean and Latin American authors! #PITCHLAKE #visualpoem #langstonhughes #asianamericanliteraryreview #poetry #caribbeanpoetry #aalr #canadianpoetry #latinamerica

Bagoo writes in “Catullus in Libya,” “At nights I removed my...

Bagoo writes in “Catullus in Libya,” “At nights I removed my penis / 
but in the morning it grew whole again.” The speaker considers poetic, ethnic, and ecological inheritances where multiple migrations and complications color the speaker’s inescapable queernesses — Rajiv Mohabir @rajivmohabir on Pitch Lake at Poetry’s Editors’ Blog Reading List: July/August 2017. http://bit.ly/2v5Vnb4

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#pitchlake #books #poetry #bookswag #bookslut #bookshelf #bookselfie #bookstagram #booksarelife #bookstoread #bookslover #bookstagrammer #books

Poetry is its own nation. I read whatever I want. There’s a line...

Poetry is its own nation. I read whatever I want. There’s a line in Tristan und Isolde, “I myself am the world.” That sums it up. Trinidad is a great example of multiculturalism. Our ties to the world are dizzying, be it to Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, you name it. Donald Trump and Barack Obama have both visited.

—Interviewed by @rajivmohabir on PITCH LAKE at Jacket2 http://bit.ly/2zrhaxN (at The University of the West Indies Humanities and Education Students Society)