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"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...
Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) [1] is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature. [2]
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator.Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois ("nation language"), [2] establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression.
Delores Gauntlett (née McAnuff) is a Jamaican poet whose work has appeared in regional and international publications. [1]Freeing her Hands to Clap was short-listed for the 2000 National Book Development Council/Una Marson Biannual Award.
Vera Bell or Vera Alberta [1] or Albertha [2] Bell (born 1906; date of death unknown) was a Jamaican poet, short-story writer and playwright. [3] [4] Her 1948 poem "Ancestor on the Auction Block" has been anthologized several times [5] [6] although a 2005 review of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse says "some of the earlier poems survive only as amusing museum pieces, such as Vera Bell's ...
Jamaican Thomas MacDermot (1870–1933) is credited with fostering the creation of Jamaican literature. According to critic Michael Hughes, MacDermot was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture," [2] and his Becka's Buckra Baby [3] as the beginning of modern Caribbean literature.
Lorna Gaye Goodison CD (born 1 August 1947) [1] is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades. She is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, previously serving as the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies.
Christine Craig was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in rural Saint Elizabeth. She received a BA from the University of the West Indies. [1] In 1970, she published her first work, Emanuel and His Parrot, a children's book. [4] She began publishing poetry in the late 1970s and published her first poetry collection, Quadrille for Tigers, in ...