Christian Campbell
@runningthedusk
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2011 National Black Writers Conference Foto by Andre Beckles
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Have you listened to “My Grandmother’s Love Letters” by Christian Campbell on our daily #PoemADay podcast? @runningthedusk
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Books Podcast · Updated Daily · Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made...
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“What is the meaning of South? We are from what Trinis from Town call ‘Past d Lighthouse’—unlit, faraway, abandoned. Outside. The land remembers when it was part of the main.” —Christian Campbell @runningthedusk
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Untitled Document Pray for rain and watch it walk across the sea, to bless the bare head of the carrion corbeaux, even the shy agouti, and Maria, old pirogue left on shore, open casket at Punta de la...
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Pray for rain and watch it walk across the sea, to bless the bare head of the carrion corbeaux, even the shy agouti, and Maria, old pirogue left on shore, open casket at Punta de la Playa. ––Christian Campbell @runningthedusk
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Untitled Document Pray for rain and watch it walk across the sea, to bless the bare head of the carrion corbeaux, even the shy agouti, and Maria, old pirogue left on shore, open casket at Punta de la...
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Haiti bids farewell to literary giant Frankétienne in solemn funeral
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Haiti bid farewell to Frankétienne, a literary and artistic icon, at his funeral in Pétion-Ville on Feb. 28, 2025. His legacy endures.
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Pierre Joris' poetry and his translations of Paul Celan changed my life. Breathturn Into Timestead, his rendering of Celan's later books, transformed my conception of what a poem is and can do. He was an inimitable steward of language, bringing light to everything he touched.
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The Haitian Studies Institute Cries Woukoukou on the Passing of Frankétienne (1936-2025) and Danielle Legros Georges (1965-2025)
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What I am teaching today: The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire Translated and edited by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman
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We proud. And grateful for the service to the region.
During her Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) swearing-in ceremony held this morning (October 29), Jamaican attorney and jurist, Dr. Chantal Ononaiwu, conveyed profound gratitude for her appointment to the institution, praising its members for their history of making valuable
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Born in Trinidad, Dr. John Alcindor earned his MD in Scotland in 1899 & was a physician, political activist, & senior district medical officer in London. He was awarded a Red Cross medal for his work treating the wounded in WWI. His great-nephew is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Designer Robert Young and poet Christian Campbell making style in a highly entertaining talk at Granderson Lab/The Cloth atelier in Belmont yesterday evening
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M A K I N G S T Y L E: Looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant designer Robert Young , founder of The Cloth, tomorrow, Oct 17 at 6:30pm at The Cloth’s atelier at 24 Erthig Road, Belmont. https://t.co/MH4TwVEsvh
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Those who continue to be completely erased from the narrative are indigenous people of the CARIBBEAN. More names than I know: Lucayan, Arawak, Taino, Kalina, Carib, Kalinago, Ciboney, Kalipuna, Nepuyo, Warao. . . . Yes, we exist.
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We have existed and we do exist. Not extinct. #NOTEXTINCT As all the Columbus talk is dominated by the U.S., a place Cristobal Colón/Cristóforo Colombo never touched, we are ever reminded that land and bodies can be taken, and so can languages and stories.
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Play on, Pappy. Play on, Frankie. You gave us the rites to give our griefs to the gods.
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I always wondered if Frankie was an Orisha devotee, in his uniform of white. They brought generations together. They were veritable institutions of this big-ass Black Diaspora, now jammin together on d Next Side.
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They were both shapers of The Sound, from San Fernando to Philly. They were key architects of what we now call Black Joy. I shared roots in South Trinidad and Grenada with Pappy, and I spent time in Frankie's Philly.
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