In the Spotlight: Professor Emeritus Mervin Morris

Jamaica once again has a poet laureate, an honorary title that has not been awarded in over 50 years: the distinguished academic and poet Mervyn Morris, OM. Morris, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and West Indian Literature at the University of the West Indies, is the author of Is English We Speaking (1999), Making West Indian Literature (2005) and six books of poetry including I been there, sort of (2006).