Dawn Lundy Martin reads from her newest collection, Good Stock, Strange Blood (Coffee House,2017).
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Major Jackson talks with Sampsonia Way to talk about how Philadelphia, like so many American cities, is changing, and how his own work has changed since his time there.
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Major Jackson reads at City of Asylum as part of Cave Canem’s annual celebration of black poetry.
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Chinese civil rights lawyer Teng Biao discusses his work and his own journey to activism and advocacy.
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PJ Harvey and ICORN rapper Ramy Essam’s song “The Camp” details the conditions faced by displaced Syrian children in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Proceeds from the sale of the song will be donated to the Beyond Association, a NGO which imrpoves the conditions of refugees in Lebanon, like those in Bekaa Valley.
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Afghani artist Mohsin Hossaini’s short film illustrates the experiences of children of war.
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In this Writer’s Block Q&A, novelist Peter Ho Davies discusses the reclamation of language and the role that it plays in shaping identity.
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