Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American educator, poet, writer, social and literary critic, and translator whose work explores Haiti and the Haitian diaspora’s culture, politics, language, and religion. The author of several poetry collections in English and Haitian, Sylvain’s poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appear in leading journals including Ploughshares, Callaloo, Transition, Prairie Schooner, Agni, American Poetry Review, The Caribbean Writer, and African American Review. He holds degrees from UMass-Boston, Harvard, Boston University, and Brandeis University, where he was the Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Prize Fellow. Sylvain teaches Global, Transnational, and Postcolonial Literature at Simmons University and recently served on Harvard’s History and Literature Tutorial Board. His publications include Education Across Borders (Beacon Press, 2022) and Underworlds (Central Square Press, 2018). His updated bilingual poetry collection, Unfinished Dreams /Rèv San Bout, will be published by Central Square Press (April 2026); his other poetry collections, Fire on the Tongue, will be published by Arrowsmith Press (May 4, 2026), Habits of Light, will be published by Finishing Line Press (July 7, 2026).

• PART 1.- 1_Introduction: Haiti, Men Mwen (Here I Am)! Biding, Revolution, and Pauperization.-  2_Interrogating Haitian History and The Politics of Subordination.- 3_Heterodoxical Haiti and Structural Violence.- 4_ Haiti’s Crisis of Institutions and Ethical Imperative: Power, Leadership, and Constitutional Order.- PART II.- 5_The Macoutization of Haitian Politics.- 6_Haiti: Malversive State and Teetering Nation.- 7- The Violence of Executive Silence.- 8_ The Price of Poverty and the Ecology of Exploitation.- 9_ Haiti’s Structural Vulnerability at the Juncture of Ineptitude.- 10_ Haiti on the Brink: Gang State and Gore Capitalism.