Goodison, Lorna

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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.Kamau Brathwaite introduces award-winning Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison, who reads her poem "To Us, All Flowers are Roses," "Some Things You Do Not Know About Me," "I Am Becoming My Mother," "Becoming A Tiger," and "Coir." Goodison then reads four poems: "Recommendation for Amber," "Amber Sees her Beloved in all Things," "Letter to an Egyptian," and "Letter to Vincent van Gogh." She next reads "White Birds," "Love Song of Cane in Three Parts," and "Toronto Spring," alternately called "Quartet of Daffodils," accompanying each with an explanation of why she wrote them. Goodison reads "Deep Sea Diving," "New Water" (about which she remarks that she often writes about water), "Calling One's Sweet Psalmist" (a poem about Bob Marley), and "Heartease, New England," written about her stay in Boston, Massachusetts. Lastly, Goodison reads "This is a Hymn," "Some Nights I Don't Sleep," and "Trident."

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