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MIAMI - Jamaica-born author, Geoffrey Philp will be reading at with Dylan Landis and Marc Fitten the Miami Book Fair International 2009 on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 3410.Copyright Geoffrey Philp, author of Who's Your Daddy?: And Other Stories
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I'll be appearing on WPBT's Nightly Business Report tonight (7:00 p.m EST) in an interview with Jeff Yastine. We talked about blogging, social media, Kindle, and publishing in the Internet age.
Update: 11/13/2009:
NBR Transcripts-November 12, 2009 Thursday, November 12, 2009
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Geoffrey Philp on Who's Your Daddy, Dylan Landis on Normal People Don't Live Like This and Marc Fitten on Valeria's Last Stand.
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2:00 p.m., Room 3410 (Building 3, 4th Floor)
Marc Fitten
Marc Fitten was born in Brooklyn in 1974 to Panamanian parents. He’s been published in Prairie Schooner, The Louisville Review and serves as the editor of the Chattahoochee Review in Atlanta. His first novel, Valeria’s Last Stand (Bloomsbury), set in a Hungarian village, is “a promising debut.” – Publishers Weekly.
Dylan Landis
Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This (Persea), has published fiction in Tin House, Best American Nonrequired Reading and won the California Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. “The characters in Dylan Landis's debut story collection, Normal People Don't Live Like This, are blessedly extraordinary.” – Vanity Fair.
Geoffrey Philp
Geoffrey Philp is a writer and poet whose awards include a James Michener Fellowship at the University of Miami. Born in rural Jamaica, he is the author of four collections of poetry, a previous book of short stories, a novel and Who’s Your Daddy and Other Stories (Peepal Tree Press). He lives in Miami.
Schedule
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2:00 p.m. Free
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 3410 (Building 3, 4th Floor)
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The 29th Annual West Indian Literature Conference
The theme for the 29th Annual West Indian Literature Conference is Caribbeanscapes: The Vistas of Caribbean Literature.
The Caribbean has been perceived in myriad and often contradictory ways: as paradisal isles; outposts of innocence offering Edenic beginnings; hedonistic beachscapes of tourist fantasies; the backwaters of civilization, condemned to mimicry and futile posturing; and vital centres of creative cultural hybridity, literally new worlds that prophesy our globalized futures.
Anglophone Caribbean literature is a rich archive of such perceptions, often articulating them as visual tropes of space and place that conflate geography and history, language and cartography in the attempt to chart the imaginative and literal frontiers of psyche and society.
To explore this archive of Caribbean literary vistas, the 29th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature invites papers and panel proposals on the following topics:
• Tropicalized Spaces : The Power of Vistas
• Home and Garden: Domestic Ecologies
• Unhomely Spaces
• Manscape and Womantongue Trees: The Gender of Vistas in Caribbean Literature
• Rural Pastoral, Urban Dystopia? City and Country in Caribbean Writing
• Plantation, Yard, Tonelle: Metaphors of Place and Identity
• Spectacular Islands: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Caribbean Popular Culture
• Translocal and Transnational Vistas
• Travel Writing
• Bordered Vistas: Border Regimes, Border Clashes, and Border-Crossings
• Imagining Caribbean Space
Proposals are welcomed on other topics that are relevant to the theme of the Conference.
Abstracts should not exceed 250 words in length, and should include (1) a title, (2) name, status and institutional affiliation of the presenter(s), (3) a contact email address, and (4) a mailing address. Please also let us know if you require any special equipment. Papers will be a maximum of twenty (20) minutes in length.
Abstracts or proposals for panels comprising three papers should be emailed to the following addresses:
liteng@uwimona.edu.jm
litsengmona@gmail.com
The first Call for Papers will close on November 30, 2009
Dear Reader,
Please help to spread the word via Twitter, Facebook or any other social media .
Peace,
Geoffrey
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Hannah Bannister, Peepal Tree marketing manager
and managing editor, Jeremie Poynting
Do you think Caribbean writers have reason to be hopeful about the future?
Hannah: I really do think it’s a bright future, and I hope we’ll start to see more entrepreneurs setting up Caribbean publishing companies – there’s room for more, judging by the volume and quality of the submissions we receive.
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This year, Holgate's Night of the Indigo won a silver medal in the category of 'Young Adult Fiction - Religion/Spirituality'. The awards ceremony was held on October 10 as part of the West Virginia Book Festival in Charleston. While Holgate was not able to attend, he was happy to have won. "I'm very pleased with the award. I found it very interesting that the book didn't win in the category of fantasy/sci-fi which is the genre it qualifies for, but won in the religious/spirituality category," he said. "I'm very happy nonetheless. Anyone who reads the novel could easily understand why that happened."
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Philp's imagination flows from a casual game of dominoes that reveals the deep undercurrent of affection between father and son to the laugh-out-loud inventiveness of a dreadlocked vampire. I encourage all villagers to read this book to see a unique view of the lives of Black boys and their (sometimes) absent fathers.
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After thunderstorms have cleared the city,
after the homeless have abandoned their cardboard palaces,
fog older than Tequesta circles, Seminole arrowheads
and Spanish jars, dulls the sawgrass’s razor,
turns away from the charted rivers,
slithers over the boulevard I could not cross
when the names Lozano and McDuffie rhymed
with the scent of burning tires, and away
from churches with broken steeples that grow
more vacant each Sunday because their faithful
folded their arms while balseros floundered, boriquas
drowned, and negs joined their sisters and brothers
on the ocean bed. Yet something like music
rises from the sound of the gull’s wings beating a path
over Calle Ocho, Little Haiti, La Sawacera, like the bells
that echo over the Freedom Tower, bright as the final
burst of the sunset against the billboards, gilding the sea
grapes’ leaves washed clean by the evening rain.
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