SampsoniaWay.org recognizes the African American authors who have contributed their stories and words to our pages.
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This year, we spoke to poets, journalists, filmmakers and novelists from India to Morocco, from France to Iran. We talked about revolution, the forgotten history of the United Farm Worker Movement in Texas, hereditary exile, writing as an act of defiance, and much more.
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In commemoration of Black History Month, Sampsonia Way recognizes the African-American authors who have contributed their transformative words to our pages, among them Chris Abani, Amiri Baraka, Toi Derricotte, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nikki Giovanni, Angela Jackson, and Yusef Komunyakaa.
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On January 9, 2014Amiri Baraka, poet, playwright and activist, passed away at the age of 79. A leading figure of the Black Arts movement, today we remember Baraka by sharing an interview Sampsonia Way published in 2011, after he came to read with Cave Canem at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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This week: the CCP blocks news sites for the 18th Party Congress, Tibetan self-immolations continue in China, and an interview with poet/ activist Amiri Baraka.
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As we anticipate this year’s Cave Canem poetry reading at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, we offer a compilation of interviews with past guest writers. Know what the writers think about Cave Canem and poetry.
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Sampsonia Way joins the celebration of National Poetry Month by recognizing ten poets who have contributed to our pages. Watch and read their voices here.
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