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

KAMAU BRAITHWAITE

Bill Allegrezza's blog alerted me to this account of the plight of poet and scholar Kamau Braithwaite. Check in and do what you can to express your support and if you can do anything to help beyond that, please do so. (Anyone have any more info about this?)