Bermudian poet Nancy Anne Miller recently read her poem Pearl from her chapbook Conch, which the Bermuda Arts Council funded in 2002; this is her second reading as part of Angles of Light: Readings of Caribbean Poetry.
Ms. Miller said, “I read my poem Pearl from my chapbook Conch which the Bermuda Arts Council funded in 2002. The poem is named after the family ship “Pearl” which sank during the mid nineteenth century. I use this incident from Bermuda’s maritime history to metaphorically write about owning my own poetic voice, and ultimately for discovering and claiming Bermuda as my main subject matter.
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