Globalishish was the word for the Calabash Festival 2014 which hosted authors from all over the world.

Highlights, of course were the interviews with Salman Rushdie and Jamaica Kinkaid, as well as so many other exciting authors and ending with the Calabash Acoustic Ensemble paying tribute to Judy Mowatt with Ms. Mowatt herself performing!

The largest crowd ever and everything seeming to go off without a hitch. Unbelievable.

Thanks to all the sponsors and to Justine Henzell and Kwame Dawes for another fabulous festival. One thing everyone who took the stage agreed on was this is the best literary festival in the world. Even Salman Rushdie commented on the size crowd.

Well done to all!!!

You can view photos here or by the link in the Photo Gallery.

Marblue, too thanks to all the sponsors and Justine Henzell & Kwame Dawes for another wonderful festival.
It was wonderful and we are blessed to live in this wonderful part of the world.

Poetry Workshops allow for a de-construction of individual poems & their evolutionary revisions…shining a light on the jewels, lyrics, images (oft aches & lamentations & epiphanies in the weave).
A question may arise in a second or subsequent reading of what "field" or "voice" or "reality" or mystical state of being the poet is floating.

So after such a fulfilling literary festival as our Calabash, and with the video cameras running full bore, we would hope from the follow-through organizers of the Fest to snip & edit down some of the visual/spoken highlights for the Repeat Enjoyment of the attendees & the virtual pleasures of those not making the final steps to the seaside pavilion of luxurious, heart-felt, coaxing & wrenching spoken word.

A fine example of a Poetry Festival, whose bevy of co-operative organizers were able to post videos of their performers almost immediately after their event in Washington DC is "Split This Rock".
Their Mission, as a loose collective, "calls poets to a greater role in public life & fostering a national network of socially engaged poets. Building the audience for poetry of provocation and witness from our home in the nation’s capital, we celebrate poetic diversity and the transformative power of the imagination…"

Here from their YouTube Program is the poet Yusef Komunyakaa, whose roots are tangled up with a Trinidadian grandfather who stowed away for a voyage to the US, and the son of a humble carpenter in Louisiana...a lineage feeding into his appearance at the 2008 ("Imagine") Calabash Fest.

Yusef Komunyakaa Performing "Islands"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S56jI1n7id8&index=13&list=PL4ir8iOdSa_aF8uykwxJP S_4SrAXd6yrd

Split This Rock Line-Up Videos of Poetry Performances
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ir8iOdSa_aF8uykwxJPS_4SrAXd6yrd


The most beautiful order of the world is still a random gathering of things…insignificant themselves.
––Herakleitos of Ephesus (Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher…535BC – 475BC)

Radiance…dwells in the ordinary, the difficult and the plain.
––Jane Hirshfield (US poet)
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Anyone recognize the background in the picture for this article?
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27919125