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Richard Georges

November 9, 2022

Laureate Lecture 2022: ‘Stone by Bloody Stone’

Dr. Georges, the poet laureate of the Virgin Islands, delivered this 2022 Laureate Lecture at the opening of Culture and Tourism Month on Nov. 1 at Maria’s by the Sea. …

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by Richard Georges
September 11, 2019

POEM — Listening

What could I have known of the easeful ways of sliding through this world? A dew drop descending the petal’s sloping splendour;   this same moon that rose over great …

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by Richard Georges
April 2, 2019

COMMENTARY — ‘The empire is not dead’

Being a commonwealth or territory is permanent second-class status.  – United States Senator Chris Murphy (D – Connecticut)     A certain Clematius, a man of senatorial rank, who seems …

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by Richard Georges
September 11, 2018

Commentary — ‘Make something frighteningly new’

A year ago I wrote that there was opportunity hidden amidst the wreckage of Irma and Maria and that we just needed the wherewithal and the courage to find it. …

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by Richard Georges
May 5, 2016

‘The quiet violence of being’

The day before I put the proverbial pen to paper to write this, one of the most prestigious places of learning in the world decided not to remove the name …

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by Richard Georges

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