CONTRIBUTORS

Juleus Ghunta

Juleus Ghunta is a Jamaican peace advocate living in Yonago, Japan. Ghunta’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals including The Missing Slate, Spillway, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Chiron Review, Interviewing the Caribbean, DoveTales, Moko, BIM, POUi and In this Breadfruit Kingdom, an anthology edited by Jamaica’s Poet Laureate, Mervyn Morris. He was twice shortlisted for the Small Axe Poetry Prize. His picture book, Tata and the Big Bad Bull, is forthcoming in 2017.

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The day my father threatened to kill me— mother forbade me to see him. When I was twelve, I passed the exam everyone expected I’d have failed. Ecstatic, I found father in Negril. I hadn’t seen him in years. He …

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