While researching for his fall 2024 collection, titled “Anansi Rhythm,” Daley’s eye turned to the poet Louise Bennett-Coverley, better known as Miss Lou, who was known for writing in the ...

Wow, too many to mention. In modern times, Colin Channer, Marlon James, Mervyn Morris, Lorna Goodison, Louise Bennett-Coverley. Previously, Roger Mais, Claude McKay. Outside of those Jamaican ...

As she turned 111, a COVID-19 wave prevented another party. Allen-Rowe called Skeen and the women sang songs by Jamaica’s poet and folklorist Louise Bennett-Coverley, “the ones that bring you back ...

The name and titles of Jamaica's beloved poet — Dr. The Hon. Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley, OM, OJ, MBE, Hon. D. Litt. — sound very grand, but to Jamaicans, she was, and always will be, simply “Miss ...

It was on September 7, 1919, that Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley came into the world in a Jamaican town, according to the text A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett-Coverley Found Her ...

The Louise Bennett-Coverley Heritage Council presents the 2022 Writers Clinic entitled, Therapeutics: The Pen, The Journal, The Brush – In These Times. The three-part workshop is an excellent ...

Louise “Miss Lou” Bennett-Coverley is being honored today in selected regions with a dedicated Google Doodle on what would have been her 103rd birthday. Born in Jamaica on September 7 ...

Louise Bennett-Coverley was born 104 years ago today, and she went on to lead an inspiring and generation defining life. Affectionately known as Miss Lou, she leveraged her sense of humour and ...

Cultural icon Louise Bennett-Coverley was the subject of Wednesday’s Google Doodle – on her 103rd birthday. The poet and educator worked to preserve her native language, Patois or Creole, through ...