Crop Over Unapologetic Literary Magazine August 2020
A Literary Arts magazine published online filled with prose and poetry submitted by talented writers based in the setting of Crop Over. The words would be creatively married with images from local photographers. Collaborated on and coordinated by Nailah Imoja. We challenged writers to submit poems and short stories on the topic of Crop Over Unapologetic. We are also featuring the visual works of photographers who were inspired by the writings to help with the visual aesthetic of the magazine under the same theme. This magazine features written wizardry from, Daveny Ellis, Shaneise Holder, Aprille Thomas, Ramone Blackman, Robert Gibson, Andre Sandiford-Williams, Robert Edison Sandiford, Sonia Williams, Linda Deane and Jamaica award-winning writer Opal Palmer Adisa with a guest piece by local legend Winston Farrell. You will see visuals from the minds of photographers Jaryd Niles Morris, Andrew Browne, Alexander Newton and Michron Robinson. The magazine will be launched for all to browse these words from any device! You will also be hearing some of the top work chosen from a panel of Shakirah Bourne, Adonijah, Sarah Veneble and Andre Harewood professionally performed by Dy Browne and Mahalia.
A Literary Arts magazine published online filled with prose and poetry submitted by talented writers based in the setting of Crop Over. The words would be creatively married with images from local photographers. Collaborated on and coordinated by Nailah Imoja.
We challenged writers to submit poems and short stories on the topic of Crop Over Unapologetic. We are also featuring the visual works of photographers who were inspired by the writings to help with the visual aesthetic of the magazine under the same theme. This magazine features written wizardry from, Daveny Ellis, Shaneise Holder, Aprille Thomas, Ramone Blackman, Robert Gibson, Andre Sandiford-Williams, Robert Edison Sandiford, Sonia Williams, Linda Deane and Jamaica award-winning writer Opal Palmer Adisa with a guest piece by local legend Winston Farrell. You will see visuals from the minds of photographers Jaryd Niles Morris, Andrew Browne, Alexander Newton and Michron Robinson. The magazine will be launched for all to browse these words from any device!
You will also be hearing some of the top work chosen from a panel of Shakirah Bourne, Adonijah, Sarah Veneble and Andre Harewood professionally performed by Dy Browne and Mahalia.
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Apart T ides
by
DAVENY ELIIS
An Ode to the Tourist who comes to my shores for Crop Over
POEM
You come here with your sweat
Your drunkenness
Your sexual desire
Your tourist dollar
You want to be a part of this
You want to escape from your City
From your Empire
From the scent of your city
The scent of your Empire
You want to be a part of this
You want to stain the streets
with your vomit
Your cum
Your semen
Your sex
You want to be a part of this?
I don’t blame you
I don’t blame you for wanting this
This is beautiful
This is Mas
Carnival
Crop
Over
Wha it mean to you?
It means something different to me
Is more than wuk ups and tourist dollars
Is important
Is my festival too
Forgotten because beads, feathers,
pretty mas, skin and alcohol
Got you flying to become a part of this
Are you part of this beyond your black
skin?
Beyond your hair?
Beyond the revel?
Do you want this?
Do you want to feel this?
I mean we make everything better
We give flavour
Color
Excitement
Life
Of course you want to be a part of this
But you really want this?
All of this?
I don’t blame you for running
Because we see Them
Shooting
Killing
Choking
Jailing
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