M. NourbeSe Philip

M. NourbeSe Philip (b. Tobago) is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and independent scholar who lives in the space-time of Toronto, where she practised law for seven years before becoming a writer. She has been a Guggenheim, MacDowell and Rockefeller (Bellagio) fellow, and received the 2020 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

September 14, 2020

Touching the Ground

The sea and its horizons bring both respite and reminders of violence. For poets Imani Elizabeth Jackson, M. NourbeSe Philip and S*an D. Henry-Smith, the sea is an end, and also a beginning

April 9, 2020

Covidian Catastrophes

I think of the virus, invisible to the naked eye, which has wreaked such havoc in such an achingly short time, and see the parallel with another virus, albeit metaphorical—the virus of greed that spawned that earlier global disruption and destruction of nations, peoples, cultures

M. NourbeSe Philip

Touching the Ground

Covidian Catastrophes

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