Kola back issues from September 2007:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Kola is approaching twenty years of publication and we would like to extend our deepest gratitude to our patrons, subscribers and contributors. It is you who have made the magazine successful. From its inception, the magazine has worked tirelessly to give a voice to neophyte ...
I Am.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> I Am (A Response to Cyril Dabydeen's "I am not") I am West IndianCaribbeanListen to meListen to me manLet me tell youOne, two, three, four ... timeYou see me--am West Indian manLamming, Selvon, BraithwaiteWalcott (recent)...
Think Green.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> THINK GREEN Far back in time before Einstein redefined timeEverywhere was beauty, the trees, viper, and mankindThe hardwood trees shimmied in the morning breezeThe branches wore sleeves buffed with green leavesand served one man alone Mango Juli, Plums and ...
I Will Survive (Nappy I).(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> I WILL SURVIVE (NAPPY I) Nappy locks, Rasta locks, dread locksLike the Tabonuco tree roots lockUnited against the storms of hurricane hellThat rage and rip up mangrove rootsLeave stalks to stand like Hagen's humanLimbs stretched, crushed in the fist of ...
Beyond Slavery.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> Beyond Slavery Racing through space on the tail of a starWe exploded into a billion brilliant sparksThat bit into the darkness all aroundAnd plummeted to isolated parts whereOnce before the evil one had plungedHeadlong to a frozen Hell on the underside ...
Hip Hop Crime.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> Hip Hop Crime I woke up sweating in the cold nightCause I heard screaming, heard her cry"No more, no more, no more, no moreBaby, no more, Baby no more"Then I heard whop! Whop! Whop!Another scream: "No more. Baby hold!""Shut up bitch. I ain't ...
Song of Compassion (1958).(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> Song of Compassion (1958) Little voice!Little voice!Do you hear me?Do you hear me calling?I can hear your rhythmic voice?Do you hear me calling?Can I ask you for a favour?None graver asked beforeCan I ask your patience?And your ...
Unspoken.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> Unspoken It's like I can't figure him out in one sense and in another I can.in the material plane he's an elusive fragmented character; in thespiritual plane: he's whole and divine. I know him well in thespiritual and since we are all spirits having and human ...
Still Waters.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> Still Waters after yesterday, I knew bliss again, he was sweet and intimate andmine. as intimate as I could get him to be talking about the beachand somehow feeling his memories, he saw mine. on the page. were wereally talking about the beach or something else? ...
A Lamb to the Slaughter.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> A Lamb to the Slaughter (Isaiah 53) We scorned Your name and spurned Your PersonAs You walked Calvary's death row in pain.You did it for us while grief and rejectionYou received. Those strips of flesh and crownOf thorns were borne for our transgression. ...
My Redeemer.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> My Redeemer You walked death's road with my shame,Bloodied-faced, thorn-crowned and lame.You died to set me freeOn that rugged cross of Calvary. Stripped, striped and forlornMy sins you bore alone.Oh what joy the crowd ...
Every Moment of Every Second.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> EVERY MOMENT OF EVERY SECOND I love you not only when you expect me to ...But every hour in a day,Every minute in an hour,Every second in a minute,Every moment of every second. When you're near, and when you're far,Through ...
Friendship.(POETRY)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> Friendship Friendship is like a beautiful starThat burst forth from the skyTo put a new spark into your life.Friendship is sometimes a gradual growthLike a flower inching its wayTo become a beautiful spectacle. Friendship brings you a new ...
Director's notes.(About the Theatre)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2007; ... For me, The Lady Smith was a discovery. I had never come across it before. Although, I thought I'd heard of, or seen almost, all of Andrew's plays. It came out of nowhere during my search for this season's production. It came out of nowhere and hit me with the weight and darkness of Nina ...
Teardrops.(Fiction)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2007; ... When crystal teardrops fell from the rumored icy priceless princess' jeweled green eyes, it was as though the angels wept. Indeed they did. As evidence, the clouds burst and the earth siblings ran for cover from what they called a flash flood. Shazhaera mourned her parents passing. She ...
Devotions.(Fiction)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2007; ... I see and feel him cradle the nape of my neck and mouth I care into my shoulder. It makes me shudder and I can't think. He drinks me in with his mouth and cups my buttocks with demanding hands. Together we fit a mould captured upon the hearth of eternity. He rocks me ... amazingly sweetly ...
Anthony Joyette, For Judas Iscariot in Heave and other poem.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Anthony Joyette, For Judas Iscariot in Heave and other poem, AFO Enterprises, 2005: Book Review Joyette's collection For Judas Iscariot in Heaven extends a spiritual offering of redemption for humankind that is envisioned within the social and private spaces of the poet's ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Deviant: Turn the switch off on "no Snitching".
Sep 22, 2007; ... Is it possible that the KKK is right? They claim that their job on Blacks are done, because a set of black hip hop artists from the "wormwood" of society are doing a better job at demeaning and abusing Black people, especially Black women. They are the neoclassical poets of the ghetto. The ...
The Black Theatre Workshop (BTW): An Artistic Cultural Experience in Canadian Diversity.(Part 1)(Company overview)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Introduction. The Black Theatre Workshop (Le Theatre BTW Inc.) evolves out of the Drama Committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Montreal (October 1965-1985). It is the oldest surviving professional English speaking Black theatre company in Canada. In Montreal, it shares the ...