Saturday, May 14, 2005

Save Cow Pastor - More From Kamau Brathwaite in Barbados

Thanks to Lorna Dee Cervantes' blog, here's an update on the plight (as well as struggle) of Kamau Braithwaite (I've gotten quite a number of google searches about this, by the way...)

Thanks to
  • Jordan Stempleman's First Nation
  • here's the latest from poet, Kamau Brathwaite at
  • Cow Pastor
  • thanks to a site set up by Tom Raworth.

    For more information:
    Jean at
  • OKIR
  • has a sample of Kamau Brathwaite's poetry from
  • "Stone" in Middle Passages.
  • Click on the link to his name and you'll find a great site on him from the Online Poetry Classroom.
  • Night Jar
  • (earlier short prose pieces.)


    Jordan adds these suggestions: Hi, More info can be found here:
    http://www.tomraworth.com/wordpress/
    Letters to those responsible might help, as well as letters to the editors at Counterpunch:
    counterpunch@counterpunch.org
    &
    Truthout:
    http://www.truthout.org/contact.htm
    & Native Forest Council:
    http://www.forestcouncil.org/aboutus/contact.php

    2 comments:

    Tom Raworth said...

    Thanks, Brian, for the Kamau link. I try to keep the site up-to-date... a little easier at the moment as Kamau is briefly in London and we can communicate quickly.
    Good luck.
    Tom Raworth

    Tom Raworth said...

    Thanks, Brian, for the Kamau link. I try to keep the site up-to-date... a little easier at the moment as Kamau is briefly in London and we can communicate quickly.
    Good luck.
    Tom Raworth