The Caribbean writer Marvin E. Williams.

Includes bibliographical references.

Poetry. [by] Althea Romeo-Mark -- Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming -- Thomas Reiter -- Kei Miller -- James Christopher Aboud -- Alina Antonetti -- Willi Chen -- Cassandra Ward -- Susan Broili -- Kathryn Martins -- Opal Palmer Adisa -- Amar Gaurav Shah -- Lauren K. Alleyne -- Geoffrey Philp -- Gerry LaFemina -- Millicent Graham -- Gwyneth Wood -- James R. Whitley -- Rane Arroyo -- Berkley Wendell Semple.

Short fiction. $t Milk / $r A. S. Calypso -- $t Spirit house / $r Jennifer Davis Carey -- $t Drifting / $r Katia Ulysse -- $g The $t Smile of the crocodile / $r Eduardo Santiago -- $g The $t Shaman's prayer / $r Kei Miller -- $t Two birds with one stone / $r Winston Nugent -- $t Conscience is the same as do right / $r Opal Palmer Adisa -- $t Secret love / $r Willi Chen -- $t Broken / $r Ashley-Ruth Moolenaar.Book reviews. Selected writings by José Martí / reviewed by Roland B. Scott -- Traveling mercies by Lorna Goodison / reviewed by Carrol B. Fleming -- Maroon: a selection of poems by Danielle Legros Georges / reviewed by Geoffrey Philp -- In Cuba I was a German shepherd by Ana Menendez / reviewed by Marisella Veiga -- North of the Equator: places and identity by Cyril Dabydeen / reviewed by H. Nigel Thomas -- A rough climate by E. A. Markham / reviewed by Kwame Dawes -- Of marriageable age and Peacocks dancing by Sharon Maas / reviewed by Patricia Harkins-Pierre -- Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid / reviewed by Erika J. Waters -- Home and back by Arnold Harrichand Itwaru / reviewed by Vladimir Barac and Susan Wanlass -- The polished hoe by Austin Clarke / reviewed by H. Nigel Thomas -- The nightwatchman's occurrence book and other comic inventions and The writer and the world: essays by V. S. Naipual / reviewed by Bruce King -- The pond by Manuel Zeno-Gandía / reviewed by Eugene V. Mohr -- Walker and the Ghost Dance by Derek Walcott / reviewed by Kwame Dawes -- Caribbean autobiography: cultural identity and self-representation by Sandra Pouchet Pacquet / reviewed by June D. Bobb -- Magical realism by Kamau Brathwaite / reviewed by June D. Bobb -- The Maroon narrative: Caribbean literature in English across boundaries, ethnicities and centuries by Cynthia James / reviewed by Vincent O. Cooper -- Approaches to the poetics of Derek Walcott by José Luis Martinez-Dueñas Espejo and José María Pérez-Fernández and Abandoning dead metaphors: the Caribbean phase of Derek Walcott's poetry by Patricia Ismond / reviewed by Robert D. Hamner -- Contemporary Caribbean women's poetry: making style by Denise de Caires Narain / reviewed by Philip Nanton -- Caryl Phillips by Bénédicte Ledente / reviewed by Harald Leusmann -- Bob Marley: lyrical genius by Kwame Dawes / reviewed by Geoffrey Philp -- Please Malese!: a trickster tale from Haiti by Amy McDonald and The twins and the bird of darkness: a hero tale from the Caribbean by Robert D. San Souci / reviewed by Sarah F. Mahurt.