for Telcine Turner-Rolle By Dionne Benjamin-Smith also for Stan Burnside for Denis Knight for Dr Keva Bethel for Jackson Burnside * * * * a good and gentle soul has passed all-a-you be quiet wit ya infernal noise please give me silence to mourn a friend taskmaster/teacher a joy she was a quiet shape that shifted in and out ever watching, speaking winsome words moving lightly barely being seen but a presence surely being heard a lilting tenor a dulcet voice she ruled with an iron pen scratches of red blotting out black i thought it would never end but marks made showed considered care a keen mind a ready wit an unexpected comment, a double take a mind set for merit a quickening lit for three years she pursued me to publish a play that I wrote an assignment for her writing class a clumsy attempt, and I quote "this is not good enough" "how could you possibly want this?" for three yearsI resisted but she would hear none of it but consistently she cajoled She'd say, "there's potential I see" until I could resist no more; I'm glad I gave what she asked of me how do we say thanks to those who inspire who pushed and prodded and lit the burgeoning fires? who gave of themselves encourage
Woman Take Two
It’s been a while since I’ve read a play and I always find it an interesting experience. Woman Take Two is a very short play with just three acts and 93 pages. The story is relatively short, and the action only takes place over a couple of times, but there’s still some good character beats which would make it an interesting play to see performed. I liked how in the dialogue there were colloquialisms and they also defined what they meant. The colloquialisms added a sense of realism to the characters and made the dialogue flow easily.
Harold is not a nice person and he is cruel to both his employees and his family. He is a strong patriarch that won’t take no for an answer. It’s difficult to tell if he is good at manipulating others, or if it’s ju
By Dionne Benjamin-Smith, Editor and Publisher, Bahamian Art & Culture Newsletter
"I'm glad you've decided to publish. Life is too short to waste your additional talents."
- Telcine Turner-Rolle in an email to Dionne Benjamin-Smith, dated March 4,
There are some people you cross paths with on your life's journey who make such an impact that it changes how you think, how you view things, how you make decisions. More times than not, those people are our teachers.
Telcine Turner-Rolle was such a teacher in my life. It was with such sadness that I learned of her passing. I knew she had not been well but never did I think we would be losing her. After all, I had just seen her and her husband, Mr. James O. Rolle, two months earlier on the Transforming Spaces tour. They were both their usual lovely selves, always warm and hearty and welcoming. They both looked well. I am so glad I got to see her that day.
Mrs Rolle was my Creative Writing teacher at COB between She made literature and writing come alive for me. She was tough, did not tolerate slackness and was known to be a "hard grader".
She was feared because she wielded the red pen like a sword and often I would get back my p
The Nation/The Imaginary
Reading List
“The Dreamers”, found in If I had the Wings (), Helen Klonaris
How to be A True-True Bahamian (), Patricia Glinton-Meicholas*
“The Impossible Garden” found in WomanSpeak Journal (), Lynn Sweeting
“Sonnet for the Moon” found in WomanSpeak Journal () Lynn Sweeting
Gun Boys Rapsody (), Ian Strachan*
Woman Take Two (), Telcine Turner-Rolle
“Ghost in Mr. Pratt’s House” by Toinette Major, found in Once Below a Time, () edited by Telcine Turner-Rolle
“How the Bahamas Became an Archipelago” by Pamela Carey, found in Once Below a Time, () edited by Telcine Turner-Rolle
“How Brer Rabby tricked Brer Lion”, found in Once Below a Time(), Telcine Turner-Rolle
Pulling the Wings from Out my Back, (), Letitia Marie Pratt
Discovery Daze (), Obediah Michael Smith
“With My Sheep-Tongue Souse” found in Yinna, Vol. 1 (), Obediah Michael Smith
Blue (), Tanicia Pratt *
Mama Lily and the Dead (), Nicolette Bethel
Running the Dusk (), Christian Campbell
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