Editor’s Acknowledgments

One day, when I’m really rich, I’ll give each of the following people a 60GB iPod fully programmed with their favorite music: Kwame Dawes, Justine Henzell, Roger Brown, Mervyn Morris, Geoffrey Philp, Kaylie Jones, Johnny Temple, the forty writing fellows who entered the first Calabash Writer’s Workshop in 2003, Russell Banks, David Winn, Chris Abani, Marie Brown, Junot Díaz, Dr. Edison O. Jackson—President of Medgar Evers College, Dr. Elizabeth Nunez—Chairperson of the college’s English Department, and Professors Gregory Pardlo, Linda Jackson, Nellie Rosario, and Tom Bradshaw—the creative writing team.

Addis and Makonnen, my American children, oonoo yardie faada love oonoo. Eternal Father bless our land.

Thanks be to Jah.