Senior, Olive Morris, Mervyn

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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.Mitch Kaplan, owner of Books & Books bookstore, introduces the program and Poetry Workshop director Jamaican writer Olive Senior, who humorously introduces Jamaican poet Mervyn Morris, about whom, she says, other poets "joke a lot about the Mervyn Morris style and about things being Mervyn-esque." She talks about his literary scholarship and his editing as well as his poetry. Mervyn Morris gives a personal aside. He then introduces and reads a series of short dramatic monologues from On Holy Week: A Sequence of Poems for Radio: "Prologue by the Maker," "Jesus in Gethsemane," "Judas," "Pilate's Wife," "Pilate," "Peter," "Soldiers," "A Woman Named Mary," "Malefactor (Left)," "Malefactor (Right)," "Centurion," "Mary (Mother)," "John," "Joseph of Arimathaea," "Mary Magdalene," and "Thomas." Morris then reads "Examination Centre," "Narcissus," "Museum Peace," "Valley Prince (For Don D)," "Dadd, Poor Dadd," "A Drawing (For M. C. Escher)" (based on the drawing "Ascending and Descending")," "Cave," "Writing (After Octavio Paz)," "Muse," and "Stripper." Morris reads his poetry: "Data," "Going Through the Park," "The Castle," "Journey into the Interior," "The Pond," "Windscreen," "Legion," "Literary Evening Jamaica," "Case History, Jamaica," "Responses," "Afro-Saxon," "For Consciousness," and "A Poet of the People." Morris reads his poetry: "Rodney Poem," "Meeting," "Sister," "Seen," "Family Pictures," "A Routine Love," "Creative Writing," "A...

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