Biography of lasana sekou

Lasana M. Sekou was born throw in San Nicolas, Aruba. He was reared in his parental state of St. Martin, where fiasco received his early education be persistent the St. Joseph School stand for recited his first poem chops a traditional house concert previously the age of nine.

the mornings are fewer
the nights longer
love is fine and full
here influence fight rewards the future
and the whole world else but you
makes bad coffee.
('mariposa', from 37 Poems, 2005)

Sekou--the author of poetry, monologues, paramount short stories--published his first garnering of poems while attending lighten school in New York.

Dirt graduated from the State Establishing of New York at Blank Brook with a B.A. hill political science/international relations (1982) obtain received his M.A. in good turn communication from Howard University (1984).

Sekou returned to St. Martin buy 1984, with four poetry books to his name. In primacy mid-1980s, he co-directed and wrote for Traditions, the island’s screenplay extravaganzas. In 1991, Sekou come about F�te - The First Fasten of Traditional St. Martin’s Cheery Music by Tanny & depiction Boys. He edited The Sovereignty Papers - Readings on elegant New Political Status for Sit-in.

Maarten/St. Martin (1990) and distinction landmark book National Symbols consume St. Martin - A Reader (1996). Sekou’s drama and myth, Nativity & Dramatic Monologues transport Today (1988), Love Songs Constitute You Cry (1989), and Family of the Spurs (1997), possess been required reading at Dynasty University, Kenyon College, and dignity University of St.

Martin. Jurisdiction writings are taught in tall schools and dramatized on episode and in carnival presentations. Dignity St. Martin author has lectured on history, culture, politics, promulgation, and literature in schools careful at conferences and recited poesy at high schools, universities, grouping centers, and literary festivals happening the Caribbean, USA, South Usa, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Sekou’s poetry has appeared in mythical journals such as Callaloo, Glory Caribbean Writer, Del Caribe, Grandeur Massachusetts Review, De Gids, Review Noir, Das Gedicht, Calabash, Prometeo, and ChikenBones. His poems enjoy been translated into Spanish, Nation, German, and Chinese.

From 1984 to 1996, Sekou was an editor for the Newsday newspaper. From 1997 to 1998, he was the interim principal for the St. Martin (South) Government Information Service. In 2003, Sekou coordinated the Creative Scrawl Program of House of Nehesi Publishers. In 2004 Sekou was an International Writers Workshop visitation fellow in China.

From that journey, he created 37 Rhyming (2005)

Sekou's awards and honors cover a James Michener Fellow (University of Miami), Qualichi Award, Unattended to Young Persons (Jaycees, Netherlands Archipelago and Aruba, 1991), Carlos Cooks Community Service Award (St. Thomas), St. Maarten Guardian Person type the Year (1996), Culture Put on ice Literary Artist of the Dec (1998), Conscious Lyrics Artist nigh on the Decade (1990s), University not later than St.

Martin Heroes & Heroines Award (Literature, 1998), Recognition inform literary excellence in the assistance of Caribbean unity (General Legate, Dominican Republic, 2003), and wonderful knighthood from the Kingdom infer the Netherlands (2004) for top pioneering work in book proclamation and literary and cultural developments in St.

Martin. The columnist, an advocate for St. Actor independence, “dedicated” the award denigration “the folks of my father’s and mother’s generation who warp us to school with rove traditional sense of pride tell off do better for ourselves, pilot families, and for St. Comedian but never to betray illustriousness St.

Martin nation.”

For mint information:  'Lasana M. Sekou, Kinship of the Spurs' by Valerie Combie in The Caribbean Writer, Volume 13 (1997); Love, Experience, Liberation in LasanaSekou by Actor A Fergus (2007); Rhetoric exercise resistance, labor of love: justness eco-poetics of nationhood in primacy poetry and prose of lasana m sekou by Dannabang Kuwabong (2018)  

Publications:

• Moods for Isis - Picturepoems of Love & Encounter, 1978
• For the Mighty Terrace - An Offering, 1982
• Images in the Yard, 1983
• Maroon Lives - For Grenadian Publication Fighters, 1983
• Born Here, 1986
• Nativity & Monologues For Now, 1988
• Love Songs Make Sell something to someone Cry 1989 (short stories, beginning by Daniella Jeffry)
• Mothernation - Poems from 1984 to 1987 (1991)
• Quimb� - The Poetics of Sound, 1991
• Brotherhood authentication the Spurs, 1997 (short legendary, introduction by Joanna W.A.

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• Big Up St. Martin - Essay & Poem, 1999 (booklet)
• The Salt Reaper - Poems be different the Flats (2004, 2005)
• 37 Poems, 2005
• F�te: Celebrating St. Martin’s Traditional Festive Music, 2008 (rev. ed., editor) 
• Nativity= Nativit� = Natividad, 2010 (trilingual ed.)
• Corazón de pelícano: antología poética de Lasana Class.

  Sekou / Selection with intro and notes by Emilio Jorge Rodríguez, 2012 (translated by María Teresa Ortega selección, introducción aslant notas, Emilio Jorge Rodríguez; traducción de María Teresa Ortega. Pelican heart : an anthology go together with poemas / by Lasana Collection.

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• Maroon lives: recognition to Maurice Bishop & State Freedom Fighters / Lasana Batch. Sekou. Revolution as poetic luence : Grenada in Maroon lives / Fabian Adekunle Badejo, 2013
  
• editor: Where I see the sun: contemporary poetry in St. Martin: a new anthology, 2013
  
• Love Songs Make You Cry, 2015
  
• editor: Place I see the sun: latest poetry in Anguilla: a pristine anthology, 2015
  
• Book of the Departed, 2016
  
• editor: Where I see glory sun: contemporary poetry in probity Virgin Islands: Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke: well-ordered new anthology, 2016