Tinny, Wallace Quashie, Cin D Horne, Naana Banyiwa Smith, Malachi D. Sankey Limerick, Carl Jardim, Keith Rankin, Claudia Glave, Thomas Sylvester, Everton Sekou, Lasana M

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The Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, hosted by the University of Miami English Department, was held for five weeks during the summer in Miami, Florida, from 1991 through 1996. Each year the program arranged public readings and interviews at a variety of locations in Miami.Coral Gables (Fla.)Mervyn Solomon welcomes the CWSI participants. Wallace Tinny introduces three poets from the Imani Um Nommo Writers Workshop: poet Cin D Quashie (of St. Kitts), poet and English teacher Naana Banyiwa Horne (of Ghana), and Malachi Smith (rap and dub poet of Jamaica). Poet Cin D Quashie (of St. Kitts) reads "Next Year I'll Give Up Coffee," a poem of prayer. Naana Banyiwa Horne (of Ghana) reads "Messages," which mocks an arrogant man. Malachi Smith (rap and dub poet of Jamaica) reads "Kind People" and "Police Brutality." Naana Banyiwa Horne concludes with "Moonya." Mervyn Solomon introduces the CWSI participants. Guyana-born poet Carl Limerick, a teacher in Nassau, Bahamas, reads Patricia Turnbull's poem "In Transit." He then reads his own poetry: "Guyana New Year's Eve 1977," "Bitter Wine," "Words for Wayne," "Yajeda," "The Eye's Habit," "Israelite," and "Do I Dare." Prize-winning Trinidadian writer Keith Jardim reads an excerpt from his novella "The Dust," about a wealthy young man, Trevor, who receives a visit from two government agents who claim to be searching for guerrillas and signs of gun-running. He fears for his life when they become menacing. Jamaica-born Claudia Rankin of New York reads her poetry: "Birthright," "The Thirty Year Bridge" (inspired by driving over the...

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