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5 min

Boundaries, by Mahalia Solages

I am outside with the boys, grounded for a moment by the last vodka shot. There’s Stephen, who usually doesn’t come to my hang out place...

Suze Baron: Take Vladimir, He's Good Company

BABG

7 min

Suze Baron: Take Vladimir, He's Good Company

It is biting cold in front of the Family Court.   A year ago, if you had told me that I would be standing here today, about to petition guardianship for a seven-year old, I would have said, “You’re nuts.” Life is difficult as it is, with my eighty-nine-year-old Mama twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. She forgets where she goes to the bathroom, forgets where she lives, even forgets who I am. Besides Mama, I have my teenagers, Edena and Jimmie, and two dogs. At fi

Marlène Rigaud Apollon: To the Memory of My Father

BABG

4 min

Marlène Rigaud Apollon: To the Memory of My Father

To the memory of my father buried in Petit-Goâve Of all the poems in my first collection, Cris de colère, Chants d’espoir, Cries of anger...

BABG

3 min

Katia D. Ulysse: "Dawning of a New Day"

No matter how long or dark the night, he recognized a passerby by the shuffle of the feet, the rustle of the clothes, the sway of...

BABG

20 min

Catching Crazy, by Fabienne Josaphat

When my brother came out of the womb on a month of July, Papa looked at him closely with a grimace.

BABG

3 min

4 Poems: Patricia Biela and Suze Baron

Because Mama cannot hear and because she talks nonsense everytime she opens her mouth Everyone avoids her

"When I Can’t See the Sun": Jean-Michel Daudier’s Soundtrack to Haiti’s Democratic Moment

BABG

10 min

"When I Can’t See the Sun": Jean-Michel Daudier’s Soundtrack to Haiti’s Democratic Moment

Daudier wrote the song after the Duvalier regime closed the popular Catholic station Radio Soleil on December 5, 1985 for broadcasting news

BABG

4 min

Learning Creole, by Juderns Exceus

My grandmother taught me Kreyòl. You must know where you come from, so you understand where you’re going, she said. Kreyòl: an open door to

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