George Rodney: In pursuit of purity
Fifty-one years ago, when George Rodney started out at the Cultural Training Centre on North Street, Kingston, he couldn't possibly have known where the journey would take him, but he knew he wanted to paint. At the time, the institution that eventually became the Edna Manley College (EMC) was a part-time school.
Literary Arts - Believe it!
"Mi cant believe it!" Edna Wilson cried as heavy globules of tears flattened out into shiny streams on either side of her nose. "Mi cant believe say Justin woulda really do a ting like dis!" Justin was her husband. They had moved from Banana Walk into this urban housing scheme almost 12 years ago.
Book Review - 'From Vernacular to Standard English' a must-have
Dennis R. Craig might be dead, but his book, From Vernacular to Standard English, has brought the issue of language teaching and learning alive, and no teacher of language and literacy should be without a copy.
Book Review - A highly-praised reading
Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA, spoke of Trevor Rhone as Jamaica's "pre-eminent screenwriter and playwright" on its website when he visited them on his campus residency in early 2004. The site also mentioned that "His most recent play, Bellas Gate Boy, had a highly praised reading at Harvard University last spring."
Literary Arts - Nightmare
Sparrow skipped barefooted along the grassy path, stopping now and again to pick a bright dew-flecked flower. She saw a swarm of colourful butterflies and chased them until they flew away above a blooming trumpet tree top. She stopped and slowly slid to her side in the blue-green guinea grass interspersed with dandelions.
CALLING LITERARY ARTS WRITERS
The Sunday Gleaner welcomes your poems and short stories for publication in our Literary Arts Section.
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