Llanos, Dalma Manoo-Rahming, Lelawattee Harrison, Faye Torruella, Elena Lawton de Goulbourne, Jean Weir-Soley, Donna Smith, Malachi D. Sankey

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The Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, hosted by the University of Miami English Department, was held for five weeks during the summer in Miami, Florida, from 1991 through 1996. Each year the program arranged public readings and interviews at a variety of locations in Miami.Adele Newson introduces the CWSI. She then introduces Mervyn Solomon, who introduces the program and introduces Puerto Rico-born New Yorker Dalma Llanos as the first writer. Llanos, a member of the John Oliver Killens Writers Workshop, reads a love story, "Cucharitas." Mervyn Solomon introduces California writer Sarah Strong, who reads from her novel Burning the Sea. The narrator, Tollomi, a man from Saint Croix, meets an American woman in the airport; she has lost her luggage and her memory. They become friends. Part of the narrative concerns the historical reasons why many Jews who fled the Holocaust wound up in the Dominican Republic and what happened under the dictatorship of Rafael L. Trujillo Molina. Mervyn Solomon introduces Trinidadian author Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming, who reads poetry: "Love up de Culture," "Woman Love," "Full Moon Healing," "Earth Momma's Necklace," and "Do Trees Ever Dream?" Mervyn Solomon introduces Trinidadian poet Vincent Neptune, who reads poems from his self-published collection Treatos: "Two Words in New Mythology," "Crying from the Hills," "A Love Story," and others. Mervyn Solomon introduces Jamaican writer Faye Harrison, who reads from a children's story in progress called "Visitors." Some Jamaican children discover friendly extraterrestrial visitors who believe they have landed in America. Comedy results when the aliens are...

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