Photo: © Nancy Crampton Yusef Komunyakaa captivates his audience with his distinct reading style. It’s not showy; he reads quietly, yet his sonorous voice fills the room with a distinct cadence. He may read some lines […]
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Translation: Román Antopolsky Photo: © Than Htay Román Antopolsky nació en Buenos Aires. Ha publicado tres libros de poesía: Ádelon (Tsé-Tsé, Argentina), Cythna en Red (Intemperie, Chile), y Amor Islam (Lumme, Brasil). Reconocido por sus traducciones […]
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Brenda Cárdenas reading outside of House Poem on Sampsonia Way, Photo © Renee Rosensteel The first week of July, poet Brenda Cárdenas visited Sampsonia Way to give a reading with Francisco Aragón. The event was sponsored […]
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Photo ©: Than Htay Maung Since she was 19-years-old, Khet Mar has been persecuted by the Burmese government. She has been arrested, tortured, incarcerated, and threatened, but she has remained a warrior without guns. She fights […]
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Carl Phillips on Sampsonia Way Photo by Renee Rosensteel In his poem “Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm,” Carl Phillips writes “how your hands clear/ easily the wreckage; how you stand–like a building for a time condemned,/ […]
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Born in Delhi, India, in 1971, Akhil Sharma immigrated to the U.S. when he was 8. He is the author of one novel, An Obedient Father, for which he won a PEN/Hemingway Award and a Whiting […]
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In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that […]
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