Bruce St. John was born in 1923 in Barbados. After completing his high school studies at Combermere Secondary School and Harrison College in Barbados, he pursued further education at the University of London, the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), and also a Masters in Spanish at the University of Toronto. In addition to being a poet, St. John was a concert singer, physical education instructor, and a lecturer in Spanish at the University of the West Indies.  Among his works are two EPs, and two print works, although he also contributed to several anthologies. Like many Caribbea ..read more

 Hello, I am so honored that Poets of the Caribbean has been included in the top 25 Caribbean Book Blogs. Thank you so much for your support over the years. When I started the blog in 2010, I wanted to showcase to the world amazing Caribbean poets and the rich writing heritage from this region. Your comments, suggestions, and continued readership have inspired me to continue to post these past fourteen years. For more information on the other blogs on the list, here is the link: Top Caribbean Book Blogs As National Poetry Month winds down, I hope you continue to seek out and learn ab ..read more

 Happy National Poetry Month 2024, dear readers! I trust that you have been engaged in either writing, reading, or attending poetry readings during National Poetry Month this year. Do let me know what poems and authors you have been enjoying. For my part, while browsing through a bookstore late March, I bought Pablo Neruda's Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), and I have been thoroughly enjoying the collection. Interestingly, this year is the 100th anniversary of its publication. If you are a big Neruda fan like me, and you ..read more

This past week has been a difficult one for many of us. In addition to the pandemic, we have had to deal with new stories of racial profiling (Central Park birdwatcher), and violence against black men (the latest victim being George Floyd). I felt numb and had to turn in to myself to quiet my spirit. I felt moved to write this poem, New Air, to honor George Floyd's memory. New Air (For George Floyd) I feel rage my heart aches for the ache inflicted on you. The shameless cruelty of it all. George, I wish I could have soothed your brow and wiped your tears in your last eight minutes of fear ..read more

I hope you are all staying well during COVID-19, and hopefully reading Caribbean poetry to de-stress a bit. I want to say heartiest congratulations to Richard Georges on winning the Bocas Poetry Prize for his book, Epiphaneia. I listened to his reading of some of the poems, and they were very moving. I plan on getting my copy very soon. Here are some recent media coverage: Bocas News, Trinidad & Tobago News Day Trinidad & Tobago Express, OutSpoken, BVI Beacon Richard Georges is also the author of Giant, and Make Us All Islands. If you have read his poems, I ..read more

I just want to give a shout out to all the readers today who checked out the blog. They viewed from Jamaica, United States, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, Malaysia, Netherlands, Romania, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Appreciate your support. Hope to have some new poets and poetry up soon. Enjoy your week. Poetically yours, Yasmin ..read more

Enjoy another beautiful poem by Peggy Carr - Flight of the Firstborn Flight of the Firstborn He streaks past his sixteenth year, small island life stretched tight across his shoulders his strides rehearsing city blocks college brochures airline schedules stream excitedly through his newly competent hands his goodbyes blurred like neon on a morning gone suddenly wet I'm left stranded on a tiny patch of time still reaching to wipe the cereal from his smile ..read more

Peggy Carr is a journalist and poet from St. Vincent and the Grenadines. She is the author of three collections: Echoes from a Lonely Nightwatch (1989), Fresh Tracks in an Ancient Land (1996), and  Honey and Lime (2006). Here is an interview she gave to the BBC, and which featured her poem, Flight of the Firstborn. Virtual Bookworm Publishers, which published her collection, Honey and Lime, also has a nice write-up about her life and work in St. Vincent. Enjoy below a sampling of her work, in the poem, Moving. This poem resonated with me because I have moved from the Caribbea ..read more

Dear readers, Where did the year go? I know like me you can't believe that Christmas and 2018 are almost here! I want to take time out to thank you for your continued readership of the blog. So many of you took time out to reach out with comments, provide information on poets I was not aware of, and upcoming writing workshops. Some of you commented on poems that brought back pleasant childhood memories. Caribbean poetry is beautiful, and new and talented poets are adding their voices to that of our more well-known writers.The popularity of Caribbean poetry is evident in the over 200,000 page ..read more

 Dear Poets of the Caribbean readers and subscribers, I hope your summer has been amazing, and that you managed to get a lot of summer reading in - whether it was by the beach, on a plane, a cruise, train or bus. Do share what you have been reading! My summer has been great and I had an enjoyable family reunion in Toronto, Canada. Here is a picture of me trying to hold up the CN Tower. Lol! I want to share some very good news about some writing successes that I have had this year. The first relates to poetry publication. My chapbook manuscript, Questions in Jamaican Patois, has been a ..read more