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BIM (magazine)
''BIM'' is a distinguished "little magazine" first published in Barbados in 1942. It was one of two pioneering Caribbean literary journals to have been established in the 1940s, the other being A. J. Seymour's ''Kyk-Over-Al'' in British Guiana in 1945. According to the Barbados National Register, on the submission of 16 volumes of ''BIM'' magazine together with the associated Frank Collymore Collection of correspondence in 2008: :"The importance of the magazine is that it provides a miniature history of primary sources in West Indian literature. In the mid twentieth century the magazine fostered the idea, new in the region at that time, that the profession of writing is an honorable one. The magazine was the chief meeting place for Anglophone literary ideas thus enabling the writers to overcome their isolation. Bim provided also an opportunity for new writers to appear in print alongside more established Caribbean writers who had published abroad. The magazine was thus a major fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Phillips
Esther Phillips (born Esther Mae Washington; December 23, 1935 – August 7, 1984) was an American singer, best known for her R&B vocals.Santelli, Robert (2001). ''The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia''. Penguin Books. p. 376. . She rose to prominence in 1950, scoring several major R&B hits including " Double Crossing Blues" and " Mistrustin' Blues" under the moniker "Little Esther." In the 1960s, she achieved chart success with the country song " Release Me" and recorded in the pop, jazz, blues and soul genres. Phillips received four Grammy nominations, including for her album ''From a Whisper to a Scream'' in 1973, as well as for the album that featured her disco recording of " What a Diff'rence a Day Makes," which was a major hit in 1975. She died from liver and kidney failure due to long-term drug abuse in 1984. Biography Early life Phillips was born Esther Mae Washington in Galveston, Texas, U.S. Her parents divorced during her adolescence, and she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Hawai'i Press
A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks. The University of Bologna (), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *being a high degree-awarding institute. *using the word (which was coined at its foundation). *having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, , p. 55f.de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Midd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savacou
''Savacou: A Journal of the Caribbean Artists Movement'' was a journal of literature, new writing and ideas founded in 1970 as a small co-operative venture, led by Edward Kamau Brathwaite, on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. History Characterised as "groundbreaking" by Alison Donnell, ''Savacou'' grew out of The Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) of the 1960s, which was mostly concerned with Caribbean artistic production and with consolidating a broad artistic alliance between all "Third World" peoples. The journal took its name from the bird-god in Carib mythology who controlled thunder and strong winds. Issue 1 of ''Savacou'' was published in June 1970, edited by Brathwaite, Kenneth Ramchand and Andrew Salkey. Its advisory committee included John La Rose, Lloyd King, Gordon Rohlehr, Orlando Patterson, Sylvia Wynter, Paule Marshall and Wilfred Cartey, and among its early contributors were C. L. R. James, Michael Anthony, Derek Walcott, George La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barbados Advocate
The ''Advocate'' ("Barbados Advocate") is the second most read daily newspaper in the country of Barbados. First established in 1895, the Advocate is also the longest continually-published newspaper in the country. History The Barbados Advocate was founded in 1895 by Valence Gale, who had gotten his start at the Barbados Agricultural Reporter. Gale died in 1908, leaving controlling interest in the paper to his wife, Clara Gale (née Chenery). Gale's son, Valence C. Gale, served as manager from 1919 and later managing director of the paper; his brother-in-law, C. L. Chenery as editor. When Chenery died in 1925, Gale's younger son, C. A. Louis Gale, served as the paper's editor for 30 years. In 1946, the Advocate had a circulation of 7,000 on weekdays and 12,000 on Sundays and was still under its original ownership. In 1954, the newspaper joined the Inter American Press Association (IAPA). In 1960, it was joined by the ''Daily Star,'' which became a new Barbados' daily newspape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Greene
Adrian Lawrence Greene (April 10, 1848 – July 28, 1907) was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from January 15, 1901, to July 28, 1907. Early life Greene was born April 10, 1848, in Canton, Missouri, to Joel R. and Rosa Ann (née Black) Greene. He moved with his parents in 1865 to Saline County, Missouri, where he farmed for five years with his father. Law career Greene was educated in the common schools of Canton and began reading law in 1870. He was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 1871 and practiced for eight months in Miami, Missouri, before moving to Newton, Kansas, in September 1871. In 1882, Greene was elected county attorney for Harvey County, Kansas. He served for six years (two and one-half terms) as county attorney before resigning. During his service, Greene worked diligently to break up illegal alcohol traffic in Harvey County. Although he never held political office again until being appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court, Greene was very active in Republican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark McWatt
Mark McWatt (born 29 September 1947) is a Guyanese writer and former professor of English at University of the West Indies. Biography McWatt was born in 1947 in Guyana, attending many schools throughout the country due to his father's position as a district officer. McWatt attended the University of Toronto (1966–70) and Leeds University, where he studied the works of Wilson Harris and completed a Ph.D. in 1975. He took a position at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados, as an assistant lecturer, then moved up to Professor of West Indian Literature in 1999, until retiring in 2007 as Professor Emeritus. He was founding editor, in 1986, of the ''Journal of West Indian Literature'' and published three collections of poetry, the second of which, ''The Language of Eldorado'' (1994), was awarded the Guyana Prize. His 2005 first work of fiction, ''Suspended Sentences'', was the winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2006, as well as the Casa de las Amér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Beckles
Sir Hilary McDonald Beckles KA (born 11 August 1955) is a Barbadian historian. He is the current vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission. Educated at the University of Hull in England, Beckles began his academic career at UWI and was granted a personal professorship at the age of 37, becoming the youngest in the university's history. He was named pro-vice-chancellor and chairman of UWI's Board for Undergraduate Studies in 1998, and in 2002 was named principal of the university's Cave Hill campus. Although his focus has mainly been on Afro-Caribbean history, especially the economic and social impacts of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade, Beckles has also had a longstanding involvement with West Indian cricket and has previously served on the board of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). Biography Early life Beckles was born in Barbados, and began his secondary education at Coleridge and Parry Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Deane
Linda M. Deane is an English-born writer and editor living in Barbados. Biography The daughter of Barbadian parents, she received most of her secondary school education in England and earned a BA degree in Comparative American Studies from the University of Warwick. She has worked as a journalist in Barbados, the United Kingdom and the United States. She works as a tutor at the primary school level for creative writing. She was a founding member of Writers Ink Barbados. Deane was co-editor with Robert Edison Sandiford of the 2007 anthology ''Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology'', as well as other later collections. She is also a poet and essayist, and her work has appeared in various publications, including ''Poui'', ''The Caribbean Writer'' and '' Bim: Arts for the 21st Century'', and in the anthology ''The Understanding Between Foxes and Light''. She also writes for children. In 2006, she received first prize in the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Kellman
Anthony Kellman (born 24 April 1955) is a Barbados-born poet, novelist, and musician. In 1990, the British publishing house Peepal Tree Press published his first full-length book of poetry, ''Watercourse'', which was endorsed by the late Martiniquan poet Edouard Glissant and which launched Kellman's international writing career. Since 1990, he has published three novels, four CD recordings of original songs, and four additional books of poetry, including ''Limestone: An Epic Poem of Barbados'', the island's first published epic poem which covers over four centuries of Barbadian life. In 1992, he edited the first full-length U.S. anthology of English-language Caribbean poetry, ''Crossing Water'', and in 1993, he received a U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Kellman is the originator of the Barbados poetic form Tuk Verse, derived from melodic and rhythmical patterns of Barbados's indigenous folk music. Early life Kellman was born in Whitehall, Saint Michae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Clarke (poet)
Austin Clarke (Irish: Aibhistín Ó Cléirigh) (9 May 1896 – 19 March 1974), born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. Clarke's main contribution to Irish poetry was the rigour with which he used technical means borrowed from classical Irish language poetry when writing in English. Irish history and legend are the subjects of many of Clarke's works. Effectively, this meant writing English verse based not so much on metre as on complex patterns of assonance, consonance, and half rhyme. Describing his technique to Robert Frost, Clarke said "I load myself down with chains and try to wriggle free." Early career Clarke's early poetry clearly shows the influence of Yeats. His first book, ''The Vengeance of Fionn'' (1917), was a long narrative poem retelling an Ossianic legend. It met with critical acclaim and, unusually for a first book of poetry, went to a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamau Brathwaite
Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.Staff (2011)"Kamau Brathwaite." New York University, Department of Comparative Literature. Formerly a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, Brathwaite was the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry ''Born to Slow Horses''.Staff (2006)"Kamau Brathwaite." The Griffin Poetry Prize. The Griffin Poetry Prize, 2006. Brathwaite held a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex (1968)Staff (2010)"Bios – Kamau Brathwaite." The Center for Black Literature. The National Black Writers Conference, 2010. and was the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM).Robert Dorsman, translated by Ko Kooman (1999)"Kamau Brathwaite", Poetry International Web. He received both the Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships in 1983, and was a winner of the 1994 Neustadt I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean, and with an estimated population of 11.4 million, is the most populous Caribbean country. The capital and largest city is Port-au-Prince. Haiti was originally inhabited by the Taíno people. In 1492, Christopher Columbus established the first European settlement in the Americas, La Navidad, on its northeastern coast. The island was part of the Spanish Empire until 1697, when the western portion was Peace of Ryswick, ceded to France and became Saint-Domingue, dominated by sugarcane sugar plantations in the Caribbean, plantations worked by enslaved Africans. The 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution made Haiti the first sovereign state in the Caribbean, the second republic in the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
