PREE TOWNSEND MONTILLA, GABRIEL PARADA, FRANK FLANAGAN, WILFREDO R. SANTIAGO HERNÁNDEZ, ILLIANIZ ROMAN ORTIZ, PABLO D RAMÓN-RIVERA, AIDA E. HERNÁNDEZ FIGUEROA, ROBERTO BUNTING, GABRIEL VIVAS AND LORETTA COLLINS KLOBAH Jamaican fiction writer, poet and performer Marcia Douglas discusses her novel The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim. Marcia Douglas grew up… Read More Woman power I-rising from the page: In Conversation with Marcia Douglas

Originally posted on Angela L. Lindseth:
 VOODOO BABY  The doll glared at me from across the room. I hadn’t believed the old woman could construct life within a doll’s body, void of pulse, but there it was, a soldier waiting for its command. The voodoo queen had warned me about the birthing process. It was…

Originally posted on Stricklewrites:
Laziness: this is as good an excuse for not writing, or being creative in general, as any. This was the reason I would give for my procrastination until just over a year ago when I decided if I was ever going to call myself a writer I needed to do it…

Originally posted on Stricklewrites:
Have you heard that sound? It’s the gnashing of teeth and beating of (Storm Trooper) breast (plates), the fart of adult disappointment as the crushing weight of reality falls once more on our shoulders. Yes, it’s that time of year when millions of middle-aged fanboys and girls wet themselves at the…

Originally posted on Good Witches Homestead:
If you have been struggling somewhat to keep up with the demands for change brought forward by the energetic flow over the last few months, take heart because September looks set to be an easier more expansive month. There is a lightness, flow and forward movement to the energies…

Originally posted on rocksandbones:
Poets and writers we may seek to be- But do we then lack authenticity When each pearl’d drop of life is pooled away And re-cast in cold ink on another day? ‘True’ living and recording will never quite chime, Experience twists for the bard for her rhyme.