| Information about Merle
Collins
Rojas, Christopher K. Merle Collins Website. 27 Nov.
2002 http://www.geocities.com/merlecollins/
I rather timidly include this site selection because
the site is old and most of the links are disabled or outdated. The
reason I do include it is for the links to information about Grenada
more than anything. I think to know about an author and their work
one must know about where the author came from; these links do give
on overview of Grenadian history. Other redeeming qualities of this
site include interpretations of Collins’s work, and an interview with
Collins. In this interview Collins describes the source of her poem
No Dialects Please. She also gives her take on why it is important
to write. If you would like to contact Merle Collins this site also
has her email address at the University of Maryland.
Merle Collins. 30 May 2002. Comparative Literature
Program, U of Maryland. 27 Nov. 2002 http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/CompLit/Bios/collins.html
This site offers a brief biography of Merle Collins
posted through the Comparative Literature Program at the University
of Maryland. The site sums up her education and written achievements.
It also includes her email address.
Works by Merle Collins
Collins, Merle. Because the Dawn Breaks. 28 Nov.
2002. North Carolina SU http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/dawnbr~1.htm
An instructor at NCSU posted this poem by Merle Collins
for her class. The poem talks about dreams, what they are and who
has them.
Collins, Merle. Free. 27 Nov. 2002 . The Poetry Society.
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/education/undpost5.htm
Eighth in a series of nine, these poems took up residence
in London Underground carriages in June and July of 2002. Collins’s
work forms part of the collection Commonwealth Poems. This
collection includes authors from countries formerly part of the British
Empire.
Hastings & Teresa. English Resources Page. 27
Nov. 2002. http://www.englishresources.co.uk/workunits/alevel/poetry/contblkwomen/merle.html
This page presents the Collins poem No Dialects Please.
She describes the source for this poem in an interview with Tamika
Jackson on Christopher Rojas’s Merle Collins Website.
Morris, Jeffrey. Windrush. 27 Nov. 2002 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/windrush/long_memoried.shtml
This site contains an example of Collins’s critical
work; Collins takes a look at Grace Nichols’s collection of poems
I is a long-memoried woman.
Sights and Sounds of Merle Collins
Quicktime video. Maryland Institute for Technology
in the Humanities (MITH). 27, Nov. 2002 http://www.mith2.umd.edu/hughes/quicktime/mcollins.html
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/hughes/quicktime/mcollins2.mov
Hear and watch Merle Collins read a poem for the Maryland
Institute for Technology in the Humanities as a part of its celebration
of Langston Hughes’s 100th birthday in February 2002.
Audio. 20 Nov. 2002. Women’s Literacy Project. 27
Nov. 2002 http://www.learningpartnership.org/events/lifelines.phtml
Collins spoke in participation with the Women’s Learning
Partnership (WLP) as part of their annual series: Life Lines: The
Literature of Women’s Human Rights. The other readers at the March
25, 2002 event were Elizabeth Alexander from the United States, Collins
from Grenada, Fatema Mernissi from Morocco, and Goli Taraghi from
Iran.
The poems she read include Somedays Mother, Images,
and When Night Falls. Hearing Collins read her work helped
me understand what she wanted to say.
Some of the sound of this 21 minute recording is distorted,
making it difficult at times to understand Collins, but the distortion
is minor and infrequent.
Information about Grenada
Deena, Dr. S. F. H. Link from Home Page. Dept. of
English, East Carolina University. 27 Nov. 2002 http://core.ecu.edu/engl/deenas/international/Grenada.htm
A site with information about Grenada.
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