It was love at first sight for Olivia Williams, when she — on a university study abroad from the US — visited the Eastern Caribbean. “I dreamed of returning one day after my studies,” she says.
In March of 2003, she was inducted as a Peace Corps Volunteer to the Caribbean island of Dominica, where she facilitated community development and capacity building trainings in the village of Delices.
As she lived among the islanders for an entire year, she grew to appreciate the simple gifts that this natural place offered. The Caribbean had dug its teeth deep into this refreshingly intelligent young African American woman.
In 2008 she returned to the Nature Isle again to Dominica to host a weekly personal development and coaching program called the Hour of Power on the radio station Q95.
Her experiences are compiled in her second book entitled Poetic Island: Refreshing Expressions From Waitukubilu. It is her view that Dominica offers extraordinary experiences for nature lovers such as diving in coral volcanoes where bubbles lead divers to the black pearl, spending the afternoon viewing the Botanical Gardens that consume a third of the capital city, walking on black sand beaches, drinking fresh water from the Layou River, listening to over 100 species of birds sing or climbing a volcano to the only boiling lake in the western hemisphere. “Poetic Island is Dominica because it evokes impassioned feelings that can only be explained in imaginative words,” states Olivia Williams.
She says, “This book is a gift to Waitukubli for teaching me how to live free and naturally.” Poetic Island is a collection of short stories from her life in the Caribbean Island of Dominica is set to be released on January 4, 2011 with an Official Book Launching event in Roseau, Dominica.
To find out more about Olivia Williams or Poetic Island visit http://PoeticIsland.com or call 866-690-2666.
BUT MOUTH OF THE SOUTH U HAVE A POINT EH……MASHUPERS ALONE
Thanks Olivia, visited the website and listened to the poem.
Thanks. We love you!
@mouth of the south, you make me laugh this morning because i know some kkk fans and trust me is pure DRAMA, well about the book i can hardly wait to read it, i sing Dominica’s praises all the time it is truely a blessed island lets not let greedy and corrupt people spoil it for us.
i doh even read the story yet,,,lol!!!!!! woman u lovely,,,u stunningly beautiful,,,,i love ur smile,,,papa how come them beautiful ladies there not coming my way nah,,,,,i must start to go fort young happy hour wii,,,i guess is dere i will see them types dere,,,,the tripple kay crowd not working out for me at all nah bwoy,,,,i tired of them wylahs,,,,so this friday fort young happy hour i going,,,cuz i need to have a woman like that in my life wii no lie