Freeport, Bahamas - You are invited to the
Book Launching of
Guanahani, My Love and Bougainvillea Ringplay by Bahamian poet, Marion Bethel.
The event will take place on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm at the Rand Nature Centre.
Admission is free. All are invited.
A signing will follow.
Guest musicians: Melvin Miller on Guitar, and Afrika Miller on Violin, with David Hoyte on Steel Drum.
Marion Bethel is also a
fiction writer and feminist activist. She read law at
Cambridge University and has worked as an attorney since 1986.
She has published and presented her work widely in the Caribbean, North
America, Colombia, Nicaragua, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Bethel was awarded
the prestigious Casa de las Americas Prize for a volume of poetry called
Guanahani, My Love which was published in a bilingual edition (Spanish/English)
in 1995. From September 1997 to August 1998 she was the Alice
Proskauer Poetry Fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe
College, Harvard University. In 1999, she edited a special section
of
The Caribbean Writer Vol. 13 called
Poetry from the Bahamas,
which was nominated for the Puschcart Prize. Bethel's book,
Guanahani, My Love, was re-published in March 2009 by House of Nehusi
Publishers St.Martin, Caribbean. Her new poetry collection,
Bougainvillea Ringplay, was published in January 2010 by Peepal
Tree Press, Leeds, England. She is now working on a third manuscript
of poetry and a novel.
Bethel will be holding a book launch
and poetry reading in Freeport on Thursday February 25, 2010 at 6pm
at the Rand Nature Centre.
