Caribbean lit links roundup
• Geoffrey Philp writes about the “great imperative” of his life, and asks his readers to think about theirs.
• Marlon James writes about meeting–or, rather not meeting–Salman Rushdie.
• Jeremy Taylor wonders why V.S. Naipaul visited Trinidad earlier this month, and why Trinidadians were “taken aback by the man’s rudeness”.
• Kwame Dawes is not sure how he feels about National Poetry Month.
• And the May issue of Caribbean Writing Today has arrived online–for subscribers only–with fiction by Ian McDonald and Velma Pollard, poems by Verna George and Sandra Sealey, a memoir by Malcolm Gladwell, and more.
