Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British ...
Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. By The New York Times Magazine Ishion Hutchinson’s remembrance of a poet he knew and of his influence. By Ishion ...