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Our Author Meet&Greet affords you the chance to sit, relax, sip coffee  or tea, listen to and chat with authors we love.

This is a Bookophilia and Rebel Women event.
We hope you'll come!

Kingston

Jamaica

Saint Andrew

Hope Road

Bookophilia

Author Meet&Greet - Olive Senior

Our Storytime is held in our children's room to facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for the little people while maximizing space to engage each other.

Storytime is generally suited for children 0-6 but all ages are welcome.

 Our friend Davia will read with us today!

Come spend the afternoon with us, grab a superbly made Deaf Can Coffee cappuccino, and maybe something sweet to nibble?

Story Time with Davia!

Come spend the evening with Safiya. Learn a little about her, about her spectacular debut poetry collection, 'Cannibal'. Sip tea, coffee or water and perhaps a bite of something sweet...all in good company.
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Safiya 
Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and named one of the American Library Association’s “Notable Books of the Year.”

Sinclair is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, fellowships from Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as the Amy Clampitt Residency Award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Granta, The Nation, New England Review, Boston Review, TriQuarterly, Oxford American, and elsewhere.  

She received her MFA in poetry at the University of Virginia, and is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
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 'Cannibal'
Winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award
Winner of the Addison Metcalf Award in Literature
Winner, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Poetry)
An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year
Longlisted for the 2017 Dylan Thomas Prize
Longlisted for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award
One of BuzzFeed’s Best Poetry Books of 2016
One of The New Yorker’s “Books We Loved in 2016”
A Publishers Weekly “Poetry Top 10” for Fall 2016
One of BuzzFeed Books’ Best Literary Debuts of 2016
A Poets & Writers Top Ten Poetry Debut of 2016
One of The Root’s Best Books of 2016 By Black Authors
A Publishers Weekly “Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2016”
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Author Meet&Greet: Safiya Sinclair

Tonight we, Live free!
strings . cymbals. drum. flute. shake-shake. bells. rainstick.

with Mbala and Maroghini 

Sip coffee, tea or water and nibble on something sweet from our cafe
Pass through, hol' a vibe!

Friday Music Hang-Out with Mbala and Maroghini

Our Storytime is held in our children's room to facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for the little people while maximizing space to engage each other.

Storytime is generally suited for children 0-6 but all ages are welcome.

Our friend Khadeem will read with us today. 

Come spend the afternoon with us, grab a superbly made Deaf Can Coffee cappuccino, and maybe something sweet to nibble?

Story Time with Khadeem!

Come through!
Tara will share some words with us

Sip coffee, tea or water and nibble on something sweet from our cafe, buy a book, 'hol a vibe!

Friday Poetry Hang-Out with Hummingbird

Our Storytime is held in our children's room to facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for the little people while maximizing space to engage each other.

Storytime is generally suited for children 0-6 but all ages are welcome. 

Our friend Xavier will read with us today.

Come spend the afternoon with us, grab a superbly made Deaf Can Coffee cappuccino, and maybe something sweet to nibble?

Story Time with Xavier!

Our Storytime is held in our children's room to facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for the little people while maximizing space to engage each other.

Storytime is generally suited for children 0-6 but all ages are welcome.

Our friend Suzanna will read with us today!

Come spend the afternoon with us, grab a superbly made Deaf Can Coffee cappuccino, and maybe something sweet to nibble?

Story Time with Suzanna!

A free and open market to afford folks a space to share creations, used books, and even more importantly, encourage and nurture community.

We encourage you to...
Buy Local! Support your pardy! Spread di Love!

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VENDOR REGISTRATION OPENS THIS FRIDAY, MAY 26
sign-up to sell your used books, drawings, paintings, pottery, jewelley, teeshirts, food, smoothies, juices, plants, sandals, handbound note books, greeting cards, soaps, candles, painted bottles...

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Full details to come

Bookophilia's Open Market

Let's gather as Marcia Douglas shares her most recent work 'The Maervelous Equations of the Dread' with us. We'll sip coffee, tea or water and nibble a little something sweet from the cafe, soak up di words an have a good chat.

Marcia
Marcia Douglas was born in the U.K. and grew up in Jamaica. She is the author of the novels, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: a Novel in Bass Riddim (2016), Madam Fate (1999) and Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells (2005) as well as a collection of poetry, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (1999).

Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies internationally, including Edexcel Anthology for English Language/London Examinations IGCSE, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, The Forward Book of Poetry, Sisters of Caliban: Contemporary Women Poets of the Caribbean, Cultural Activism: Poetic Voices, Political Voices, Kingston Noir, Jubilation! Poems Celebrating 50 Years of Jamaican Independence, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Whispers from Under the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Caribbean Erotic: Poetry, Prose, Essays, The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together, and Home: An Imagined Landscape.

Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a U.K. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In addition to writing, she performs a one-woman show, Natural Herstory, and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

'The Marvelous Equations of the Dread'
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread tells the twin stories of Jamaica’s nihilistic violence and its wondrously creative humanity and does truthful justice to both. It takes place in the worlds of the living and in the vivid afterlife of the dead, spanning Kingston ghettoes and Emperor Haile Selassie's palace in Addis Ababa.

At its heart are the human stories of deaf Leenah, who with her mother and daughter tells a powerful woman version of events; the relationship between Fall-down (a Kingston madman and fallen angel) and Delroy, an orphaned street-boy; and the meetings in the clock tower at Half Way Tree between Bob Marley and Marcus Garvey.

Not least of the novel's marvellous equations are the dread revenants who encourage the living to take responsibility for the future of the nation.

Written with an ear to music, this novel is a bass track of ancestral memory and the inexorable search for freedom.

Events at Bookophilia, Jamaica