Reading the Migration Library of LFP is joining LOATAD (Library of Africa and the African Diaspora) to produce three new literary chapbooks by Ghanaian writers. Arguably the world's experts on the concept of "diaspora", these writers are expected …
Reading Black History
It's a little lost to history these days, but "Rum and Coca Cola" was an enormous hit for the Andrew Sisters in 1945. Their version offered to postwar Americans a singable, dance-able appropriation of Trinidadian calypso--just as Caribbean travel …
Getting to Know You better
Days later, they never reappearDays later, they continue to be invisibleLike many things, they are transitory, elusiveI have not seen them since - ever" In the past couple of months, three poem & photo postcards have reached our mailbox from …
In print: The Migrators
It's been exciting to fold and assemble the first 60 copies of the most ambitious RML production to date. The Migrators (2020) by Crista Dahl, with book design by Victoria Lum and Lois Klassen, is comprised of multiple pieces that involved 5 …
SeedBroadcast “agri-Culture Journal”
Thank you, Chrissie Orr, of SeedBroadcast for sending me a nice big stack of the newest issues of agri-Culture Journal: "Cultivating Diverse Varieties of Resilience #15". The journal which has been published biannually by the artist duo of Chrissie …