Guest Authors: Kevin Jared Hosein + Roland Watson-Grant + Jonathan Escoffery

Conversation Partner: Andre Bagoo

A literary exploration of norms, dynamics, relationships, and rites of passage of Caribbean masculinity through the selected works of three (3) award-winning male writers resident in different outposts of the Caribbean civilization and settlement.

Led in conversation by poet and essayist, Andre Bagoo, Bad Man Doh Cry is expected, much in the manner of the letters of these writers, to confront social assumptions about race, masculinity, sexuality and how immigrant communities concurrently reinforce and rebuff ideas of heritage and aspirations of social mobility.

This conversation is also expected to provide a rich opportunity to observe the prismatic nature of Caribbean masculinity - what with the panel being split between residency in Caribbean and the United States, living as it were, as twin selves of the Caribbean identity. Jonathan is a second-generation immigrant in the United States while Roland, Andre and Kevin are writers currently domiciled in Jamaica and Trinidad respectively.