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Saturday, June 14, 2008

The best poet in The Bahamas
has twelve fingers

Marion Bethel
Nicolette Bethel
Christen Campbell
Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
Robert Johnson
Helen Klonaris
Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
Patrick Rahming
Obediah Michael Smith
Ian Strachan
Lynn Sweeting
Marcella Taylor

© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
2:07 p.m. 31.05.08

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: Name: Obie Quiet; Location: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas

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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