The Verandah Post
A literary newsletter for Caribbean feminist readers — seasonal, essayistic, and unafraid to take a position.
Video Performance of "Expanding" by Tara Downs
When you think of your grandmother, what sights, sounds, smells and senses do these memories inspire? In this video performance, we are invited to dance down memory lane
Daylight Denied - Discussion Essay on Race in "Daylight Come"
In this discussion essay, the author explores the depiction of race and perhaps, more accurately, post race considerations in this dystopian work “Daylight Come” by Diana McCaulay
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.