Opal Palmer Adisa | Author

Opal Palmer Adisa
A WRITERS' WRITER: FICTION, POETRY, CHILDREN'S , ESSAY, PLAY -DIVERSE, MULTI-GENRE

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Book Talk

May.16.2013

Book Talk

"Can We Talk Books?"
launches this Thursday, May 16 @ 7pm
on www.canwetalkbooks.com
Hosts: Opal Palmer Adisa & Gillian Royes

We're excited to be the Caribbean's first book radio show on the Internet. If you're a lover of books, we're counting on you to listen and enjoy. If you have a question or comment, we'd love to hear from you. Call into (914)338-1302 during the show and we'll take your call. Talk to you then!

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PUBLISHED: Nov.23.2011

Painting Away Regrets

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PUBLISHED: Apr.29.2010

Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories

Fiction. African American Studies. BAKE-FACE AND OTHER GUAVA STORIES is the first title in Mango Publishing's new Classic Series, which will bring back into print tried and tested quality fi ction with an international reputation. This established collection is made up of four Jamaican stories: `Bake-Face', `Duppy Get Her', `Me Man Angel' and `Widow's Walk'. Adisa won the 1987...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.05.2012

Caribbean Erotic

Caribbean Erotic is a revealing, wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of the many facets of the erotic in contemporary Caribbean literature. It includes poetry, short fiction and critical essays; work that celebrates desire, work that depicts realistically the psychology of, for instance, a woman whose desperate wish is that her abusive husband still desires her, and work that...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.24.1997

It Begins with Tears

his novel is set in the stone-breaking harshness of South Africa's island prison. Bekimpi, an imprisoned leader of Poko, a branch of the resistance, is stoic under torture but his body finally gives up. This has the power of Solzhenitsyn's writing. Kristoff village, in the heart of rural Jamaica, is a peaceful home where everyone looks out for each other. Then Monica comes home....

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I Name Me Name

Each piece in this dynamic poetic biography uses the voices of iconic figures past and present in a bold exploration of such hot topics as gender, race, and spirituality. The mode of presentation continually shifts—from dramatic monologue or prose poem, to prophetic rant—to provide fresh, moving viewpoints on subjects as various as the senility of a beloved grandmother and Michael...

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Until Judgement Comes: Stories about Jamaican Men

The stories in this collection move the heart and the head. They are told by an old Jamaican woman about the community that has grown up around her, the villages first inhabitant. They concern the mystery that is men: men of beauty who are as lilies of the field, men who are afraid of and despise women, brutal men who prey on women, men who are searching for their feminine side,...

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Caribbean Passion

This feisty and sensuous collection of poetry includes powerful poems about the solidarity of women, the female elders of the poet's own family, and the desire for male difference. In these poems there is no gap between the historical, the political, and the personal, all are defined by the presence or absence of the freedom to enjoy the fruits of life. Whether writing about...

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Opal's Latest Blogs

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Apr.05.2013 - 7:19 am

Wrapped in the Arms of Nature

Sometimes I am alone in the ocean, and as far as I san see there is only me and the immense blue sea and I am grateful, grateful for the soothing waters, grateful for the...

Oct.26.2012 - 2:39 pm

Paris: Lots of Sites in Which to Write

Last summer I traveled to Europe --Spain then Paris. I had been to Paris a few times before and like in the past; I found it a magical city. Although, it is often said that...

May.31.2012 - 12:41 pm

A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Caribbean Flash Fiction Collection Edited by: Opal PalmerAdisa Calling all short stories: Wanted: flash fiction, micro fiction, short-short or haiku...

Apr.16.2012 - 8:00 pm

Meeting Other Writers

What I love about attending conferences and writing festivals is the opportunity to meet other writers whose works I have enjoyed. What is most gratifying is meeting...

Comments from Opal

Apr.10.2012 - 6:50 am

In response to: The National Black Writers' Conference: The Impact of Migration on Black Literature

Hello Zanda:Thanks for

Hello Zanda:Thanks for contacting me. Dr. Brenda Green at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn is the organizer. I am...

Feb.26.2012 - 6:52 pm

In response to: The Beauty of Death

thanks for connecting and

thanks for connecting and sharing your connection with animals too

Feb.17.2012 - 6:20 am

In response to: I Never Wanted to be a Writer

Thanks

So happy that you like it and took the time to let me know.Walk Good, Opal

Jan.27.2012 - 7:13 am

In response to: Honest Generosity: Thanks Hector

Sue:Thanks for reading and

Sue:Thanks for reading and your response... Yes the cycle of generosity has tobe spread. Stay Blessed. Opal

Mar.23.2011 - 6:05 am

In response to: The Colonial Mother Land

Hello Zhana:

Glad you like it. You can share it with your group. Walk Good, Opal

Writing

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Article: Romancing the Conch: Brian Bishop

Column: Best Parenting Advice

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Feb.19.2012

Painting Away Regrets

Published by The Sunday Observer

Powerfully encased in honours to the Orishas, womanist poet and scholar Opal Palmer Adisa has offered a big book about three strains of blackness in the diaspora –...

Audio & Video

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Image Gallery: Conch in St Croix with Brian Bishop

Audio: Moko JUmbie Romance

Video: The Muse

I have known love, smelled it first dripping from his eyes, tasted it on his lips, and when our fingers clasped, I knew it was a living thing that would never let go of me...Opal Palmer Adisa”

About Opal

Diverse, innovative and multi-genre, Opal Palmer Adisa is an exceptional talent, nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of Jamaica. Charismatic and informed, Adisa’s concerns span the gamut from children to the environment, and as such there is hardly...

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