CALYPSO MUSE CONGRATULATES
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
who graduated from The University of Southern Maine
Stonecoast MFA Program
in Creative Writing, with a concentration in
Poetry. On Saturday, January 16, 2010
BRAVO!
CHERYL'S UPCOMING READINGS 2010
- Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Jazz meets poetry at 1 Alexander Street in
Yonkers, NY
-Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 7:00 PM
35 West 81 Street NY, NY
-Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Poets & Passion at St. Francis College in Brooklyn
Heights
-Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:00 PM
A Tribute to Haiti
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
Dekalb Ave. & Flatbush Ave.
-Sunday, March 28, 2010
Bowery Women Read at the Bowery Club
Bowery & 1st Street in NYC
In April 2010 we will celebrate POETRY HISTORY
MONTH
Caribbean writers will read from their poetry and
discuss their work:
-What does it feels like to write in exile
-To write in dialect or not
-Are we speaking only to other Caribbeans, or to
the international community at large
-Now that the world has seen Haiti's belly cracked
open, will we still see the Caribbean as an exotic vacation destination
"Mamie feeds me castor oil for cleansing, and
wormgrass tea for cramps.
Every Sunday, tears, castor oil straight, then
orange soda for chaser.
Years later orange soda soothes my monthly cramps.
Is it because the color is reminiscent
of the ripe mangoes of my childhood, or does it
remind me of the orange center of papayas,
jellied and damp as an inner womb? The pale bloat
and tissue readying my scarlet bowl for twin boys.
One would stand before Oya, the other would clap
and whirl, spin words. One would hear river talking
the other would write it down."
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
The Calypso Muse
Reading has been rescheduled
