Paula Lindo Wednesday 13 May 2020 Derek Walcott courtesy the Walcott Estate. – Danielle Devaux The shortlist for the first Derek Walcott Prize has been announced. The prize will be awarded annually to the author of a full-length book of poems published in 2019 by a living poet who is not a US citizen. The shortlist consists of: • Curl by TO Bobe • Girlhood by Julia Copus • Crow Gulch by…

The winner of the first annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry will win a week-long residency at Walcott’s home in St. Lucia or Trinidad, a US$1,000 cash award, a reading at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre in Boston and the publication of a limited-edition broadside by Arrowsmith Press.  The prize is being offered by the Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of Spain in collaboration with Arrowsmith…

Featherbone.

Featherbone by Erica Mena

from Featherbone:

Searshut your throat & open soundless: again—it pierces your back— spins—you lurch and plummet— light is:      to blame you:      unother. The light is already bleaching your veins metasomatized —blooming in the cracks the fissures.

This is my book, Featherbone. It’s a cyborg feminist retelling of Icarus, driven by compound neologisms. The…