Celebrating National Poetry Month 2024!

 Happy National Poetry Month 2024, dear readers!

I trust that you have been engaged in either writing, reading, or attending poetry readings during National Poetry Month this year. Do let me know what poems and authors you have been enjoying.

For my part, while browsing through a bookstore late March, I bought Pablo Neruda's Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), and I have been thoroughly enjoying the collection. Interestingly, this year is the 100th anniversary of its publication. If you are a big Neruda fan like me, and you have read from this collection, let me know what your thoughts are on it.

So excited to share as well that my second poetry collection, is now available on Amazon at the link below:

Questions in Jamaican Patois

Thanks in advance for your support!

Questions in Jamaica Patois (Poems): Now Available for Pre-Order

 Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you had a wonderful time connecting with your families and friends. I am so excited to share that my latest poetry collection, Questions in Jamaican Patois, is now available for pre-order from the Finishing Line Press website. As always, thanks for your support!

Vacation Update and Writing Successes

 Dear Poets of the Caribbean readers and subscribers,

I hope your summer has been amazing, and that you managed to get a lot of summer reading in - whether it was by the beach, on a plane, a cruise, train or bus. Do share what you have been reading!

My summer has been great and I had an enjoyable family reunion in Toronto, Canada. Here is a picture of me trying to hold up the CN Tower. Lol!

I want to share some very good news about some writing successes that I have had this year. The first relates to poetry publication. My chapbook manuscript, Questions in Jamaican Patois, has been accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press, and will be out later this fall. I will share the book link as soon as it is available. Thanks in advance for your support, whether it is to purchase a copy, post the link on your blog or other social media accounts, or to write a review. More news on this soon.

My second writing success, while in the academic realm, is nevertheless exciting too. Thanks to my wonderful co-author, Yemisi Dina, our manuscript, Legal Research Methods for the English-Speaking Caribbean, has been accepted by Carolina Academic Press, and will be out around January 2024. This was truly a labor of love, and a much-needed legal research resource for Caribbean law students and faculty, and researchers of Foreign, Comparative, and International Law.

So, all in all, a good writing year! If you are feeling discouraged about rejections, or in a writing slump, keep pressing on! Also, please let me know of your successes when they come. Pick up that pen, or work that keyboard!