Voices of Cave Canem Photo © Renee Rosensteel It should come as no surprise to readers of Push, Sapphire’s bleak and unsettling novel about a Harlem teenager impregnated by her father and abused by her mother, […]
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Maryja Martysevich performing spoken word at the Jazz Poetry Concert, Photo © Renee Rosensteel In her 2006 essay, “The Men We Choose,” Belarusian writer Maryja Martysevich audaciously describes the fate of the men in her country: […]
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When Meena Kandasamy speaks about the contemporary issues of her native India, she incisively reveals the societal assumptions that assign specific roles to people based on caste or gender. When she turns her attention to the […]
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Meena Kandasamy just finished the final manuscripts of her second poetry collection, Ms. Militancy. Kandasamy poems retell Hindu/Tamil myths, in a feminist, anti-hierarchy, and anti-caste perspective. Some of the poems make the myths contemporary by locating […]
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In mid-April 1989, thousands of Chinese citizens poured into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, mourning the death of prodemocracy leader Hu Yaobang. Over the next seven weeks, the peaceful, student-led demonstration swelled to more than 100,000 people—one of […]
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Translated by Michelle Yeh 1. So far away only broken pieces of paper flying So close by right underneath the feet It’s always the same moment Ever since that night all has lost its meaning the […]
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Translated by Michelle Yeh On April 25, 2009, I received a phone call from Sampsonia Way asking me to comment on the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre (or “June Fourth” to the Chinese). First of […]
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