Ethnicities Magazine - January 2017 - Issue N°7
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ART & CULTURE<br />
KNOWING THE POET<br />
BY: PROF. VERONICA D. FORTE<br />
vforte12samaap@gmail.com<br />
She has read for audiences in Jamaica; the United States; as part of Jamaica<br />
Rising and the Bristol Festival of Literature in the United Kingdom, in Venezuela<br />
during the 13th World Festival of Poetry and in Panama for the ARS Amandi<br />
Festival of Poetry during the month of September. Her participation in all<br />
these Festivals are part of her promotion and the lifting of Jamaican culture.<br />
Yashika expects to visit Medellín and El Salvador during their Poetry Festivals<br />
with the same purpose.<br />
Yashika was moved when she was asked to explain: How was that educational<br />
transition of a home with low income and now she is a professional at University<br />
level, writer, poet with the opportunity to travel around the world sharing<br />
her passion? She explained to us that many times she couldn’t go to school<br />
for economic reasons but at the age of 14 she went to live with her aunt Pat<br />
in Kingston, Jamaica and that was a very big help. In addition, Yashika thinks<br />
that the contribution of many people and the community with their advices or<br />
in many other ways have help in her development. She gives God thanks for<br />
having had that opportunity.<br />
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Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Caribbean Writer<br />
POUi, Susumba’s Book Bag. Moko <strong>Magazine</strong>, Poesía de Costa a Costa Anthology<br />
of the ARS Amandi Poetry Festival in Panama and will be compiled in her<br />
forthcoming first collection.
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