In a world fraying at its edges – through displacement, climate threat, and spiritual fatigue – what remains sacred? What sounds, what languages, what ancestral echoes do we still carry? The Island Isn’t Silent brings together three powerful Caribbean voices, Jason Allen-Paisant, Kei Miller, and Lauren K. Alleyne, to reflect on poetry’s ability to map survival, re-enchantment, and belonging in uncertain times. Through readings and conversation, the writers delve into the landscapes – literal and metaphorical – that have shaped their work: the shifting geographies of migration, the music of memory, and the language of spiritual and political inheritance. Anchored by this year’s Literary Botánica theme, the event draws on the idea of poetry (and prose) as both remedy and ritual, offering not only witness to grief and upheaval but also pathways to resilience. At the heart of the conversation is hope, not as abstraction, but as a living, grounded force. Jason Allen-Paisant’s new work of literary nonfiction, The Possibility of Tenderness, infuses the natural world with a language of care, inviting us to reimagine softness as a form of power. This theme of quiet strength and healing threads through the work of each panelist, challenging the assumption that survival must be hard-edged. Together, they consider how the Caribbean imagination continues to offer what the world most needs: a vocabulary of rootedness, a cadence of care, and the sacred sound of possibility. This conversation is a garden of listening. A ceremony of sound. And a reminder: the island has never been silent – it has only waited for us to hear.