The following slide show details the activity of Burmese pro-democracy Aung San Suu Kyi’s since her release from house arrest on November 13, 2010.
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Amiri Baraka reads four of his poems: “In Town,” “Lowkus,” “Play Dat,” and “Who Blew Up America?” On June 23 Baraka joined poets Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady and Natasha Trethewey for a joint reading by Cave Canem and City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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Following an opinion-editorial that called President Kagame a “sociopath”, the Rwandan magazine Ishema has not only issued an entire edition dedicated to apology, an editor has resigned, a Rwandan newspaper organization suspended its publisher, and the magazine suspended itself for a month.
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Egyptian pacifist and writer Maikel Nabil Sanad, who had slipped into a coma last Tuesday, has recently emerged and begun his hunger and thirst strike anew.
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In this video created by Sampsonia Way magazine and published also by Rattapallax, Komunyakaa describes his revision process, talks about the importance of silence in poetry, and dispenses advice for young poets.
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Tsering Woeser comments on the popular but distorted perception of Tibet as a place of mystery and mysticism, a distortion, that according to Woeser, is not only made accidentally by popular culture but even deliberately through Chinese scholarship – compounded with the explicit political propaganda.
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In this interview, twenty-six year old pioneer rapper, artist, and textile designer Salome talks about her influences and the dangers of being a rapper in Iran.
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