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January Reading: A Knife in the Heart of Being Known
James Baldwin, Canisia Lubrin, David Wojnarowicz, and others
 • Shivanee N. Ramlochan
Flank and Cutlass: Writing Love Poems
I know.
 • Shivanee N. Ramlochan
Say to my pyre that I wore only gold to death
A poetic response to Olive Senior's "Meditation on Yellow"
 • Shivanee N. Ramlochan
The Dread Unsayable: A Free 2024 Poetry Intensive
For queer Caribbean poets working towards a first full-length collection
 • Shivanee N. Ramlochan
Read Dangerously, Write with Defiance: Our Secret Substack Chat
A semifrequent gathering for us to talk books, writing, and, as always, witchery
 • Shivanee N. Ramlochan
Not Shackle, But Shell: A Catalogue Giveaway
On the Pods, Sea-Enshrined, of Wendy Nanan.
 • Shivanee N. Ramlochan
The Rooms Within: "All the Dead, All the Living"
For the first in this poem annotation series, I turn to my own work, on Jouvay itself. Come lewwe play a mas.
 • Shivanee N. Ramlochan
The Sylvia I Loved, The Sylvia I Regretted
On visiting her gravesite, on ghosts, on the women we swallow daily.
 • Shivanee N. Ramlochan
Taking Flight through the Front Teeth of Rage
A Reading Diary Whilst Abroad
 • Shivanee N. Ramlochan
Novel Niche
Queer & Transgressive Close Readings from the Ungovernable & Dangerous Margins.
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