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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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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“I never wrote poetry to clash with any side.” Mazen Maarouf, a Palestinian poet and writer raised in Lebanon, currently lives in exile in Iceland. In this interview, he reveals why he doesn’t write political poetry and how he approaches the translation process.
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Sampsonia Way is pleased to share five previously unpublished poems by Tunisian poet Ali Znaidi, including “More More More,” “The Sweet Water of Dream,” “Rebirth”, “The Beauty of Tunisian Women,” and “O, Wind!”
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Two poems from Bones Will Crow, the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry translated into English: “Achilles’ Heel” by Khin Aung Aye and “The Sniper” by Pandora. Both poems are translated by the poet Ko Ko Thett.
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Pittsburgh writer Chuck Kinder is the author of four novels and has also written numerous poems. Sampsonia Way presents Kinder’s poem, “Sometimes Poets.”
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