Books
The Black Flâneur: Diary of Dizain Poems, Anthropology of Hurt. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Ethel Zine & Micro Press. 2025 | 24 pages, poetry chapbook
About Kingston. Trinidad and Tobago: Peekash Press. 2025 | 19 pages, poetry chapbook
Edited Journal Issues
Gender-based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: Representation and Resistances in Literature and Culture. Edited by Kelsi Delaney and Amílcar Sanatan. Caribbean Quarterly 70 (3-4). 2024
Creating a Caribbean Sense of Place: Calypso, Spoken Word and the Oral Tradition. Edited by Paula Morgan and Amílcar Sanatan. Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies (1). 2021
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
“Representing Caribbean Masculinities and Vocabularies of Gender-based Violence in the Santana Puppet Web Series.” Caribbean Quarterly 70 (3-4): 371-390. 2024
“High Time to Break Up the Boys’ Club: The Gendered Politics of Spoken Word and Open Mic Spaces in Trinidad and Tobago.” Caribbean Journal of Education 43 (1): 109-128. 2021
Book Chapters
Saint Ville, Arlette, June Y.T. Po and Amílcar Sanatan. “Institutional Change Between the RastafarI Movement and the Formal State in Jamaica: A Historical Perspective.” In Institutional Diversity and Sustainable Environmental Management: Social, Cultural and Functional Perspectives, edited by H.M. Tuihedur Rahman and Ashlee-Ann Pigford, 91-107. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. 2025
“Masculinism and Gendered Power Relations in the Caribbean Left.” In Race, Class and Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century Caribbean, edited by Scott Timcke and Shelene Gomes, 143-160. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 2024
“Nostalgia for the Future: Student Activism of the Caribbean Left.” In Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States, edited by Lino Briguglio, Michael Briguglio, Sheila Bunwaree and Claire Slatter, 332-343. London and New York: Routledge. 2023
“Like Walking a Tightrope: Leadership, Youth Empowerment and Organisational Culture in Political Youth Wings in Trinidad and Tobago.” In Youth Participation in the Caribbean: Politics and Development, edited by Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts, 104-122. London and New York: Routledge. 2022
Gomes, Shelene and Amílcar Sanatan. “Symbolic Violence in the Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean.” In Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean, edited by Ann Marie Bissessar and Camille Huggins, 23-38. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021
Peer-reviewed Critical Essays
Sanatan, Amílcar, Raegan Gibbings and Shalinee Bahadur. “Forward Ever with Jacqueline Creft: The Paradox of Women’s Liberation in the Caribbean Revolutionary Left.” History in Action 6 (1): 26-34. 2018
Editor-reviewed Critical Essays
“Errata of Memory: A Tribute to Anson Gonzales and the Power of Spoken Word.” Magma Poetry 93: 30-32. 2025
“The Internet is Cool, Scholarship is Cold and Beyoncé is a Feminist: Reflections on the Popular Action Assignment in Introduction to Women’s Studies.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 10: 149-162. 2016
Introductions, Forewords and Postfaces
Delaney, Kelsi and Amílcar Sanatan. “Introduction – Social Change and Gender-based Violence: Representations in Anglophone Caribbean Art and Culture.” Caribbean Quarterly 70 (3-4): 291-312. 2024
“Introduction – Voice Tracks: Creating a Caribbean Sense of Place.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (1): 1-6. 2021
“Note from the Guild President” (Foreword). The Guild of Students at the University of the West Indies of St. Augustine, 1962-2012, authored by Shane J. Pantin and Dexnell G.L. Peters, ix. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. 2013
Interviews
“Writing and Performing the Nation: An Interview with Paul Keens-Douglas on Orality and Caribbean Literature.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (1): 1-17. 2021
“I Want to Disturb my Neighbour: An Interview with Henry Charles on Youth Movements, Empowerment and the Role of National Youth Councils in Caribbean Development.” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies 44 (3): 140-152. 2019
“Writing is an Arsenal: An Interview with Colin Robinson.” sx salon 32 (October 2019)
“A (Not So) New Day for Caribbean Literature and the Arts: An Interview with Marielle Barrow on Digital Humanities and Archiving Caribbean Culture.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 5 (1): 1-9. 2019
“Borders and Marxist Politics in the Caribbean: An Interview with Earl Bousquet on the Workers Revolutionary Movement in Saint Lucia.” ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 18 (1): 246-264. 2019
“An Approach to Freedom: An Interview with Wesley Gibbings on Journalism and Activism in the Caribbean.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 4 (2): 1-12. 2018.
“Social Media and Feminist Social Change in the Caribbean: An Interview with Ronelle King on #LifeInLeggings.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 11: 323-340. 2017
Book Reviews
“Review of Rajiv Mohabir’s Seabeast.” The Androit Journal. September 22, 2025
“Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise.” Journal of West Indian Literature 28 (2): 162-164. 2020
“The Coup Clock Clicks.” Caribbean Quarterly 66 (4): 585-588. 2020
“On Reading Maps and Memory (Review of Canisia Lubrin’s Voodoo Hypothesis).” sx salon 33 (February 2020)
Art Reviews
“Twilight, Belmont: Reflections on Marlon James’s Man Up.” Your Voice Is Critical, digital chapbook. Burnaway: 48-51. 2025
Technical Reports
Hosein, Gabrielle, Tricia Basdeo-Gobin, Colin Robinson, Sabrina Mowlah-Baksh, Simone Leid and Amílcar Sanatan. Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago: A Qualitative Study. Government of Trinidad and Tobago and UN Women Caribbean Multi-Country Office. 2018
Toolkits and Knowledge Resources
Warner, Zahra, Amílcar Sanatan, Gabrielle Hosein, Dylan Kerrigan and Jade Trim. Gender-based Violence Education for Youth: A Caribbean Arts-based Facilitation Guide. UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. July 2023
Outreach Publications
“Eradicating Latrines and Gender-based Violence.” Trinidad and Tobago Express Newspaper. December 1, 2022
“Inhabiting Absence: Zion Roses (Review of Monica Minott’s Zion Roses).” International Poetry from Around the World Series. 2021
“Engaging Men and Boys to End Gender-based Violence.” The Commonwealth (Blog). December 7, 2020
“COVID-19, Masculinities and a Mandate for Gender Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Let’s Talk About Equality, IDB (Blog). November 11, 2020
“COVID-19, Masculinidades y Mandato de Justicia de Género en América Latina y el Caribe.” Y si hablamos de igualdad, BID (Blog). November 10, 2020
“COVID-19 and Trinidad and Tobago’s Education Divide.” Global Voices. May 8, 2020
“A Poet Finds Paradise (Review of Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise).” Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. January 26, 2020
“A University of Our Own.” Caribbean Beat Magazine (Jan/Feb 2020)
“Student Protest at UWI St. Augustine.” 1968 Confrontations, UWI Museum (Blog). February 25, 2019
Sanatan, Amílcar and Terry Ince. “Working Together to End Violence Against Women.” Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. December 4, 2018
“Re-launching the Caribbean’s New World Journal.” Stabroek News. July 10, 2017
“The Ideal UWI Man.” UWI Today (January 2017)
“The Little-known Stories of Two Caribbean Revolutionary Women.” CARICOM Reparations. October 12, 2016
Creative Arts Publications
Short fiction published in edited collections
“Foots from Westbury.” In Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean, edited by Marsha Pearce, 41-58. United Kingdom: Hansib Publications. 2023
Poetry published in edited collections
“Like Boys” and “Getting Out”. In Caribbean Men in the Arts: Demystifying Masculinities with Essays, Interviews, Poetry and Stories, edited by Opal Palmer Adisa and Keino Senior, 52-56. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2024 | Publication includes author interview
“Hurricane Season,” “One Year After the Flood,” and “Day Zero.” In Disaster Matters, edited by Yvonne Weekes and Wendy McMahon (pp. 72, 96 and 111). St. Martin: House of Nehesi Publishers. 2022
“Constitution of the Republic of Outside Men.” In Bookmarked: Pree New Caribbean Writing, edited by Annie Paul, 225. Kingston, Jamaica. 2021
Poetry published in literary magazines and journals
“3 Canticles of Light (Poems in Memory of Father Makhan).” The Caribbean Writer 39 (1): 107. 2025
“For Alton Ellis,” “Night Shift,” and “Postcard: Royal Hope Gardens II.” Pree Lit 14. 2025
“Field Notes from Chaguanas and Bamboo Settlement No. 2 (3 Poems).” Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies 5 (1): 65-76. 2025
“An Ordinary Violence.” Cordite Poetry Review 117. 2025
“Poet Mother (for Lorna Goodison),” “In My Mother’s Backyard,” “Ma Forde,” “Maternal Geographies,” and “I Take After She.” sx salon (June 2025)
“Dead Names,” “Unnaming Beetham” and “A Decolonial World of Poetry and Prose.” Bim Magazine 12: 150-152. 2025
“Ode to Dreads.” Broadsided 21 (1). Spring 2025 | Publication includes author interview
“Visit to Combermere School, 2023,” “A Commitment to Righting Historical Wrongs,” and “A Marxist Analysis of West Indian Fatherhood.” Journal of West Indian Literature 33 (1): 98-102. 2024
“Love Shrouded by Ackee Trees.” Poetry Archive Now, Worldview 2024
“Coconut Drop.” Cordite Poetry Review 112. 2024
“Flat Iron,” “Car Wash, Christmas Morning,” and “Barbara.” sx salon (February 2023)
“A Season of Grief.” Poetry Archive Now, Worldview 2022
“Coolie Belle,” “Mitera,” and “Festival Light.” Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies 2 (1): 158-160. 2022
“Waterloo” and “Bangladesh.” Wasafiri 37 (2): 46-47. 2022
“Mariposas.” Magma Poetry 82 (Spring): 40. 2022
“Llegar,” “Aquí Hay Gente,” “Mundo Nuevo,” “Ciudad de Lenguas,” and “Belle Smythe Street, Curepe.” Acalabash (December 2021)
“Belmont Nights” and “Port-of-Spain Blues.” Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora 47 (1): 91-93. 2021
“Force Ripe,” “What They Say” and “Tambourine.” Caribbean Quarterly 67 (4): 489-491. 2021
“Bossa Nova” and “Kingston 8.” Bim Magazine 10 (1): 20-21. 2021
“March to Caroni, 12 March 1970” and “NUFF, 13 September 1973.” The Caribbean Writer 35: 148-149. 2021
“Cité Soleil” and “La Caraïbe.” Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture 2019/2020.(I & II): 100-101. 2020
“Lima.” Interviewing the Caribbean 6 (1): 104. 2020
“For Cabral,” “Fort-de-France,” “Marley’s Zimbabwe” and “Vida.” Aké Review 7: 14-15. 2020
“Black Americas,” “Columbus Square,” “Minneapolis to Morvant.” Bim Magazine 9 (2): 31-33. 2020
“Calypso from a Cemetery Slum.” Cordite Poetry Review 97 & 98. 2020
“À Pointe-À-Pitre,” “L’étudiant Noir,” “Le Pays Des Revenants” and “Les Quartiers Misérables.” The Caribbean Writer 34: 144-147. 2020
“Becoming.” Peepal Tree Press (Blog). August 7, 2020 | 3rd place winner, John Robert Lee’s Canticle Competition
“Bocas del Dragón.” Magma Poetry 76 (Spring): 41. 2020
“Un Rêve.” Sinking City 8. 2020
“Last Summer in Scotland.” Gutter Magazine 21: 10. 2020
“At Queen’s Park,” “Jacqueline Creft’s Child,” “Maurice Bishop Teaches Sense of Place” and “Revolver.” The Caribbean Writer 33: 77-80. 2019
“Dry Cry.” Cordite Poetry Review 92. 2019
“Iguana.” Moko Magazine 15 (July). 2019
“Constitution of the Republic of Outside Men.” Pree Lit 3. 2019
“Ms. Rose was a Mad Woman” and “This Island I Love.” Interviewing the Caribbean 4 (2): 112-117. 2019 | Publication includes author interview
“Since 1898”, “Little Boats” and “Sovereignty”. Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture 2017/2018 (I & II): 7-9. 2018
“Nineteen Eighties Hymns.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 11: 265-268. 2017
“A Poem for Granny and a Flower.” Integration Quarterly: UWI-CARICOM Project (September–December) 22-23. 2009
Creative nonfiction essays published in literary magazines and journals
“Growing Up Too Fast.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 15: 153-160. 2021
“Disappearing Boys.” Lolwe 4 (December). 2021
“A World of Poetry and Spoken Word.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (1): 1-5. 2021
“The First Day of Boys’ School.” Moko Magazine 17 (May). 2020
Creative nonfiction essays – Promundo writing fellowship:
“Black Lives Matter and Confronting Power in the Caribbean.” Medium. Promundo-US. December 14, 2020
“Masculinity in My Genes/Jeans.” Medium. Promundo-US. September 15, 2020
“Sticky Parts.” Medium. Promundo-US. February 7, 2020
“Farewell to Silence.” Medium. Promundo-US. November 26, 2019