posted by Obie Quiet at 9:03 PM
Obediah Michael Smith has published 18 books of poems, a short novel and a cassette recording of his poems. At University of Miami and University of the West Indies, Cavehill, Barbados, he has done writers workshops with Lorna Goodison, Earl Lovelace, Grace Nichols, Merle Collins, and Mervyn Morris. He is a 1971 graduate of St. Anne’s School. He attended Memphis State University, 1973 to 1976 and majored in Speech and Drama and Biology. He has a B.A. Degree in Dramatics and Speech from Fisk University. Employed by The Ministry of Education, he taught English Language and Literature in high schools on New Providence, on Grand Bahama and on Inagua. In 1989, for six months, he lived in Paris, France and studied French at L’Alliance Francaise. He has two daughters and two sons. He is at present, for a time, residing in Mexico City.
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JAM, who 10 years old today, blushed and beamed at your dedication. How many 10-year-olds have been so honoured? It will help to confirm in her mind and her heart what I have been telling her since she was born, that she is a special girl. A beautiful poem and touching gesture. Thank you so much Obediah.
Oh, how wonderful! Interestingly enough, the voice in the poem is actually her father's. What a wonderful coincidence that it is J.A.M.'s birthday today. God's blessings upon her forever. May she inherit everything that's wonderful from her nation's history and culture; and may she, quite early, come to know BEAUTY in all its forms, aspects, and through all her sense. Oh, for us all to be fully alive to art and BEAUTY, Harold.
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