The Verandah Post
A literary newsletter for Caribbean feminist readers — seasonal, essayistic, and unafraid to take a position.
This Girl Got Beef With Seeing Skin - Essay by JD
This essay by JD explores the fear of nudity and how some of our childhood experiences continue to live in our skins.
yes by MOON
This poem by MOON teases the soul, each line heady with desire and something stronger. Will you say yes?
My Mother in His House - Poetry by Neptune Naiadis
The eyes of the next generation bear witness to songs and wrongs in a home that is just a house…his house.
Black Joy - An Essay by Theophina Gabriel on the culinary mapping and seasoning of joyful memories through souse
“My essay uncovering the history and festivity around the dish from my mother’s eyes explores not just the celebratory joy it holds, but also the delicate ways of seasonal food preparation and preservation that are becoming increasingly lost to the diaspora”
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson Review by Aisha Oni
This review of Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber examines some of the key ways in which this novel has stolen our hearts and remains relevant in its weavings more than 20 years after publication.