In this video, poet Yusef Komunyakaa describes his revision process, talks about the importance of silence in poetry, and dispenses advice for young poets. The video was created by Sampsonia Way magazine and published also by Rattapallax.
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Video editing and production by Glen Wood Yusef Komunyakaa’s richly sonorous poetry is forged over hundreds of painstaking revision as the poet compresses his language down what is most essential. In these lines from “The Whistle,” […]
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In this interview conducted, Gioconda Belli reflects on the legacy of the Sandinista movement, her hopes for Nicaragua, and the state of freedom of expression under Ortega.
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The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP) — a series of online writer’s workshops run remotely by women writers based in America — allows Afghan women a forum to express and record their experiences in poems, essays and commentary without “the filter of their men and media.”
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In this interview, documentary filmmaker Jeanne Hallacy discusses the dangers of filming in Burma, how compassion guides the pro-democracy movement, and what you can do to help political prisoners.
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At salon-style readings, City of Asylum/ Pittsburgh hosts international writers like Iranian novelist Shahriar Mandanipour to read for the Northside community.
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Billy Kahora came of age in post-independence Kenya, during a time of rising poverty and social upheaval. In his words, he grew up just as “things were getting really shitty.” Born in the 1970s, Kahora is […]
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