Adele Ramos is a

Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a wate ...

an poet, author, journalist and publisher. She is assistant editor of the Amandala, a widely circulated tabloid newspaper, published twice weekly.

Biography

Both her father and her grandfather, the

Garifuna The Garifuna people ( or ; pl. Garínagu in Garifuna) are a people of mixed free African and indigenous American ancestry that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language, and Vincentian ...

leader

Thomas Vincent Ramos Thomas Vincent Ramos, commonly known as T. V. Ramos, (17 September 1887 – 13 November 1955) was a Belizean civil rights activist who promoted the interests of the Garifuna people, and is now considered a national hero. Background T. V. Ramos ...

, were writers for Belize's major newspapers. Ramos writes short stories, poetry and songs. She was the founding president of the Belizean Poets Society in 2005, since renamed the Belizean Poets and Writers Society. She was reelected president of the society in November 2006. She is also founder of the Belizean Poets Web Group and of Ramos Publishing. In September 2006, Ramos was one of the forces behind the Belizean Poets Society's the first ever Belizean poetry exhibit at the Bliss Institute for the Creative Arts. The exhibit included works from veteran poets like George Price,

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, Dr. Corrinth Lewis,

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and

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, works from contemporary poets and CDs and DVDs. Ramos has released two CDs: ''Red Graffiti'' (songs and poetry), and ''Black Orchid Raw: Volume 1'' (raw voice poetry).

Bibliography

* ''T.V. Ramos - The Man and His Writings'', (National Garifuna Council of Belize, 2000 ). Documents the life and works of her grandfather, a civil rights activist and

leader. * ''PHASES'' (2005). An anthology of love poems. * ''Liberated'' (2005). An anthology of poems by Anne K. Lowe * ''Sunset Jewel'' (2006). An anthology of poems from a Belizean national poetry contest. * X Hyde's Sports, sin and subversion (2008)

References

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