June is also Caribbean Heritage Month, so we explore how Caribbean women writers are enhancing the Caribbean literary canon in companion essays by
BIBR Managing Editor Clarence V.
As we move closer to marking the first decade of
BIBR, we continue to commit ourselves to excellence.
"We are thankful for the authors who remained faithful and continued to visit Black Images after becoming national best-selling authors" Rodgers told
BIBR.
Fred Beauford, a
BIBR contributing editor, is the author of five novels, including The King of Macy's (Morton Books, Inc.
Suzanne Rust is
BIBR's CHILDREN'S BOOK-SHELF editor.
BIBR values our readers' opinions and welcomes comments.
With the success that Bill Cox and
BIBR achieved, the dreams of all those who had dedicated themselves to a serious, sustainable cultural publication were taken to the next level.
I regret that this is the last poetry issue, at least for now, to be overseen by
BIBR's most valued poetry resource, Quraysh Ali Lansana.
Prior to your
BIBR feature, we have seen ourselves listed in articles, with our media coverage in fragments here and there; but never before in our 15-year modern-day publishing history have we seen ourselves listed as one--our strength and numbers for all to behold.
Southgate told
BIBR she was "thrilled of course" about the film project.
The answer is that we at
BIBR believe that these individuals, and the dozens of others who are not on the list but mentioned in our cover story (page 20) are history makers, and we salute them.
Parks's death on October 24, 2005, we at
BIBR have reviewed literature on her life as we prepared a list of the books about her, not counting all the ones that mention her, for our Web site, www.bibookreview.com.