Arts for the 21st Century

Amílcar Peter Sanatan

Amílcar Peter Sanatan

Amílcar Peter Sanatan is an interdisciplinary Caribbean artist, educator and activist. He is from Trinidad and Tobago and currently works in Helsinki, Finland. His multilingual poetry, essays, short fiction, interviews, and book reviews have appeared widely in regional and international literary magazines and anthologies. For over a decade, he has co-created and led spoken word open mics, literary publics, and communities for social change. He is an alumnus of the Cropper Foundation and Obsidian Foundation writers’ residencies. He was a Promundo Writing Fellow. Most recently, he was selected as a Bocas Breakthrough Fellow.

Kingston 8

The perpetual homage to jet-lagged leaves and bougainvillea’s long temptations eventually die. In youth, you mistake long kisses of July rain for something permanent.