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We come to stories because it reveals a new world, and this moves us spiritually or emotionally. Stories teach us to find our own truth; the writer is never leading us there.
This month, we are celebrating Caribbean Literature, Caribbean culture, and the people. I love literature from the Caribbean because the genre encompasses many languages, cultures, and Caribbean writers tend to take a lot of intellectual and craft risks in their writing, and this makes their work palpable and fresh.
Due to immigration, globalization, and our miscegenated heritage, "Caribbean identity" is in constant evolution, and as a result, Caribbean literature teaches us how to move around the world shapeshifting, constantly redefining who we are, and what we want, and it teaches us the importance of finding many versions of the truth.
We need many layers of truth, so we will not get stuck on one way of seeing, doing, feeling, and understanding the world.
So you don't have to get on a jet plane to experience Caribbean Culture, just Read Caribbean Literature! |
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Cleyvis Natera is the author of the debut novel Neruda on the Park. She was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College and a Master of Fine Arts from New York University.
She’s received honors from PEN America, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA). Her fiction, essays and criticism have appeared in Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of Immigration, TIME, Gagosian Quarterly, The Washington Post, The Kenyon Review, Aster(ix) and Kweli Journal, among other publications.
Cleyvis teaches creative writing to undergraduate students at Fordham University and graduate students at the Writer’s Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair, New Jersey.
What Are The Reviewers Saying:
“Natera plays with definitions of home and material and spiritual success, showing how the personal and political can become confused even when a cause, or a crime, seems straightforward . . . A savvy melodrama, warmhearted and as astute as a lawyer’s brief.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Neruda on the Park is as poignant and perceptive as it is sexy and thrilling, the rare book that manages to be chilling and fun and profound all at once. . . . A remarkable feat of imagination from a wholly original writer.”— Naima Coster, New York Times bestselling author of What’s Mine and Yours
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Book Lovers, I am so excited to join the celebration at Schomburg Center for the 4th Annual Schomburg Lit Fest on June 18. We are going to be celebrating Black writers & stories all day long ahead of Juneteenth weekend!
Check out the line-up!
Where We've Been & What We've Done in 2022!
1. Partnered with Brittle Paper to celebrate emerging African Writers!
2. Worked with Hurston Wright to curate a monthly book list featuring black writers!
3. Organized two literary panels for Montclair Literary Festival.
I love collaborating with organizations, individuals, and book festivals to bring you all the diversity in the literary world. You want to help with the shift?
Contact ME!
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