Caribbean lit links roundup

• Geoffrey Philp writes about the "great imperative" of his life, and asks his readers to think about theirs.

• Marlon James writes about meeting--or, rather not meeting--Salman Rushdie.

• Jeremy Taylor wonders why V.S. Naipaul visited Trinidad earlier this month, and why Trinidadians were "taken aback by the man's rudeness".

• Kwame Dawes is not sure how he feels about National Poetry Month.

• And the May issue of Caribbean Writing Today has arrived online--for subscribers only--with fiction by Ian McDonald and Velma Pollard, poems by Verna George and Sandra Sealey, a memoir by Malcolm Gladwell, and more.