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Kalilah the Poet

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I can’t even remember when I first started writing poetry. According to my mother, I started writing creative fiction long after I learned to write. I know that as early as four I had ambitions to write for a living, and while I was encouraged to write, I was also told that it would never sustain me, and that I should write as hobby but concentrate on something else for a career.



Somewhere along the line, my little creative pieces began morphing themselves into poetry. I’ve always had an affinity for beautiful writing, the kind that touches hearts and evokes emotion in the reader; it’s the type of writing that I strive to produce.
For the most part, I write two different types of poetry: poetry that is written to be read, and poetry written to be heard. I’ve had the most experience with the first type, which I’ve found requires more precision. The second type I’ve only recently began to experiment with; the thoughts in this type I find are a more liberal expression of thought. It sounds conversational because it’s written the way we speak.
Essentially, I enjoy writing poetry because of the thought that goes into the words. When I write prose, I’m more concerned about getting the general idea and the story out. With poetry, I get to contemplate specific words, craft them as I choose, and put my idea in concise lines that, well, sound good.


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AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:

BELIZE CITY:
The Angelus Press, Queen Street
The Angelus Press, San Cas Plaza
The Image Factory, North Front Street
Brodies, 2 1/2 Miles Northern Highway
Brodies, Albert Street
Krem Radio, 3304 Partridge Street

LADYVILLE:
Leisure Time Store, Ramon's Plaza

BELMOPAN:
The Angelus Press, Market Square
Dakers Stationary and Books, shopping center
PerkUp Cafe, shopping center
mi ma (Margaret Enriquez), 8 Moho Street

SAN IGNACIO:
The Angelus Press

ORANGE WALK:
The Angelus Press

COROZAL:
Basix Bookstore

DANGRIGA:
Integrated Business Solutions, Cedar Street

PUNTA GORDA:
Flo Johnson Store, Main Street

ALSO BY KALILAH ENRIQUEZ:

KALILAH ENRIQUEZ LIVE (DVD)
The Angelus Press, Queen Street
CD Plus, Albert Street

UNFETTERED, book and CD
GET IT AT: The Angelus Press

GET IT AT: The Image Factory

Kalilah Enriquez featured in
THE ALCHEMY OF POETRY
published by CUBOLA productions
available at bookstores nationwide



Music:

Roots
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Kalilah Enriquez performing "Roots" live on GIMME 5 (Channel 5, December 2006)

Television:



SUHEIR HAMMAD
Exotic
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Books:

THE BOOKS THAT CONTINUE TO SHAPE TO POET AND WRITER I STRIVE TO BE...

ZAATAR DIVA
Suheir Hammad

PURPLE HIBISCUS
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi

THE BLUEST EYE
Toni Morrison

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
Maya Angelou

BREATH, EYES, MEMORY
Edwidge Danticat

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X
Alex Haley

LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Nelson Mandela

CATCH A FIRE: THE LIFE OF BOB MARLEY
Timothy White

A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS
V.S. Naipaul

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER
Jamaica Kincaid

MY HOMEGIRLS FROM BPS:

PHASES
Adele Ramos
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EVOLUTION: WEAVING IN AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
WHILE THE TRUTH IS SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE
Felene Cayetao
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Visit BPS on the Internet!

Heroes:

ABOUT POEMS
EVAN X HYDE
We didn’t know
no better
we was small
we was slaves
so they said
we will teach you
about poems
poems is like this
trees by Joyce Kilmer
God can make a tree
poems by a fool like me
poems is like this
they have to rhyme
in every line
and every time
poems must be nice
so we tried to write poems
while we was small
and we was slaves
and they said good, that’s poems
but after we get big
and fight for freedom
and write
the way we feel
hunger in the eyelashes
of our eyes
and hatred give us fever
they said NO
those is not poems
they is hatred
they is violence
they is not nice
neither proper
nor correct
most uncourteous
so we said alright
it’s not poems
it’s AMANDALA
AMANDALA they said
what’s that?
and we said
it’s what we call
poems by men like me
God can still make a tree.
THIS IS THE DARK TIME, MY LOVE
MARTIN CARTER in Poems of Resistance, 1954
This is the dark time, my love,
All round the land brown beetles crawl about
The shining sun is hidden in the sky
Red flowers bend their heads in awful sorrow
This is the dark time, my love,
It is the season of oppression, dark metal, and tears.
It is the festival of guns, the carnival of misery
Everywhere the faces of men are strained and anxious
Who comes walking in the dark night time?
Whose boot of steel tramps down the slender grass
It is the man of death, my love, the stranger invader
Watching you sleep and aiming at your dream.
A DREAM DEFERRED
LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

My Blog

CRIMINAL

we are thievesstealing moments is our crime’cause in the drama of our livessometimes it’s hard to find the timebut in the middle of the dayhe can melt me awaywith a smileand it is one mome...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:58:00 PST

MY WEED

you are my weedI want to light youand smoke you all night, youare feeling so right.I want to draw you and hold you tightinside my lungs.I want to breathe you,sweet spliff,let me whiff youlift youto hi...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:54:00 PST

Channel 5 story on SHADES OF RED

Talk show host releases 2nd book In just a few minutes, a book launch will be held at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. And as News Five's Kendra Griffith explains, the publication is the co...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:14:00 PST

SHADES OF RED new book by Kalilah Enriquez

Hi friends, I'm launching my new book SHADES OF RED on Friday, December 7, 7pm at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts Rotunda. Consider this your personal invite. If you can't make it, I'll be at...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:36:00 PST

UNTITLED

Always amazes me how muchAnd little we've becomeFrom piercing ponders into your eyes to uncomfortable eye contact...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:43:00 PST

BOLEDO MAN

my mother warned me about theboledo manyet i clutched my ticket tightlyevery night at 9palms dampened the paperears cocked to the radiohoping my number would play...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:09:00 PST

JUSTICE IS DEAD

justice was murdered todaythe threats duly fulfilledjustice was killed there wasno hollywood clutching of the heartno sudden resuscitation before the final breath no time to cry ou...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:53:00 PST

AND...

and his blood spattered on the walllike toothpaste on a mirrorin the morningexcept it was crimsonfar darker than whiteno innocenceand there was no looking glassto watch himself die ...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:35:00 PST

REFLECTIONS: A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by ISHMAEL BEAH

I remember picking up the book in a mall bookstore in Tampa.  It may have been among the best sellers; I'm not entirely sure.  I'd been looking for good African literature for a while. ...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:29:00 PST

DRIVING IN BELIZE CITY

is the special art of squeezing into and through exceedingly small spaces...
Posted by Kalilah the Poet on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:25:00 PST