In September 2014 Gerald Stern returned as a Jazz Poetry performer. Published here is a segment from his volume Not God After All, published in 2004 by local publisher Autumn House Press.
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A poem by TJ Dema, following her spectacular performance at the 2014 Jazz Poetry Concert. Dema is a spoken word performer and poet from Botswana.
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For more than two decades, Samarasinghe fought for justice, freedom, and accountability in Sri Lanka. Produced in the wake of catastrophic loss, her poems unflinchingly merge the personal with the political, evoking the emotional heft of both “a cry and a song.”
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An excerpt from The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamym, an experimental novelization of an uprising and massacre of agricultural workers in India, and a meditation on the impossibility of writing a novel.
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Poet Kwame Dawes discusses the African Poetry Book Fund, which is working to expand the publication and audience of African poetry.
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This excerpt comes from Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim’s short story “An Army Newspaper”, which traces a general’s discovery of a mysterious collection from the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980′s to the present conflict.
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Presenting three poems from Diaries of Exile by Greek poet Yannis Ritsos, whose works were burned and banned several times between 1936 and 1970. Now, the latest version of his work is short-listed for the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
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