by Felicia Nimue Ackerman
“Jimmy Cliff, Singer Who Helped Bring Reggae to Global Audience, Dies at 81”—The New York Times, November 25, 2025
Eager for a splendid riff?
Feast your ears on Jimmy Cliff.
Reggae songs bring light to all;
Hard they come and hard they fall.
Felicia Nimue Ackerman is a professor of philosophy at Brown University and has around 355 poems in places including American Atheist, The American Scholar, Better Than Starbucks, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Down in the Dirt, The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, Free Inquiry, Light Poetry Magazine, and Your Daily Poem. She has also had thirteen previous poems in The New Verse News.
