The Wounds of Parents
After studies overseas in a green and pleasant Canadian city,
At a university whose motto is “It is up to you”,
Against my mother’s advice,
Earl McKenzie is a Jamaican multidisciplinary artist, scholar and educator. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, short stories, a novel, a memoir, a multi-genre volume, and academic philosophy. He has had five exhibitions of his paintings, and some of his pieces are on the covers of his books. A former Head of the Department of English at Church Teachers’ College, he later taught philosophy at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. He holds a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and a PhD in philosophy from the University of British Columbia.