Jamaican Writers @ Celebration Of The Word – June 12, 2011

WHAT: Join us for our Spring Benefit as we celebrate 5 Seasons of sharing the magic of a good story!
 
Eleven storytellers, novelists, poets & spokenword artists in an evening of letters, lyrics and ol’ talk

WHEN: Sunday, June 12, 2011.  5:00PM
 
WHERE: St. Francis College
182 Remsen Street (between Clinton & Court Sts), Brooklyn, New YorK 11201

MORE INFO: National Book Award nomenee
Marlon James
(Book of Night Women)
 
dub poet
Ras Oosagyefo
(Psalms of Oosagyefo)
 
National Poetry Slam Champion
 Everton Sylvester
(Backyard In Bed Stuy)
 
Featuring
Robert Antoni (Bahamas)
Cheryl Boyce Taylor (Trinidad & Tobago)
Merle Collins (Grenada)
Jacinth Henry-Martin (St. Kitts-Nevis)
Marlon James (Jamaica)
Anton Nimblett (Trinidad & Tobago)
Elizabeth Nunez (Trinidad & Tobago)
Ras Oosagefo (Jamaica)
Yolaine St. Fort (Haiti)
Everton Sylvester (Jamaica)
Tiphanie Yanique (Virgin Islands)