Rhymes of Another Era

I was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. My parents emigrated to New York (USA) where I moved at age eleven and spent much of my adolescence. I attented what was then one of the finest high schools in the city (Brooklyn Technical High School). Upon graduation, I was admitted to Vassar college in Poughkeepsie (New York) for four years, where I majored in French. It was at Vassar that I wrote most of the poems figuring in this anthology. I sought, at first, a literary career but circumstances and new acquaintances shifted my goals and I studied medicine. My family moved to Florida while I was enrolled in a pre-medical program in CEGEP (Montreal, Canada) for two years and then continued on to medical school in France (Marseilles, Clermon-Ferrand,Lille).

I have been married for fourteen years to Anne-Marie and am a father of two young children, Myriam and Charles-Emmanuel. I currently live in France where I work as the director of the pathology department of the Oscar Lambret Center Hospital in Lille.