Sankofa Kriol Cultural Heritage

Congratulations to the new Executive of the National Kriol Council. We look forward to growth and works!

How about submitting poems using the Kriol Writing System! Did you know we have one for the Belizean Kriol Language?!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: FOCUS ON DISSENT AND RESISTANCE
https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/submit/

In the next issue, our focus will be on ‘dissent and resistance’. Poetry has always been critical to dreams of liberation. As the poet Conceição Lima writes ‘[…] everything happened within the masts of the poem’*: poets have toppled capital cities, jumped prison walls, crushed their oppressors, threatened never to forgive injustices, and marched all the way to complete freedom. In these perilous, and calamitous times, we want to hear from poets and translators about their dreams and rage. We would like our next issue to be an archive of anger, dissidence, and rebellion. The theme is open to a wide range of readings: protest songs; poetry of social movements; meditations on the complex relationship between poetry and revolution; poetry belonging to a genre of resistance (e.g., ‘migrant worker poetry’ in China); poetry written by political prisoners amongst others. We invite all poetic modes of dissent.

*from ‘1975,’ No Gods Live Here’, Conceição Lima, translated by Shook

The deadline for submitting your work is 20th May at 12 noon.

Tilapia & Bird Fest taking place today and tomorrow at our beloved Crooked Tree in the Belize River Valley. Definitely head out there purchase your fish dinner and support our Kriol Family in the keeping the culture alive.

It was truly an amazing day among some of our cultural and creative Belizean giants.