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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According to a new report by Apparat, the presence of an underground ISIS network on Russian social media points to an inconsistent censorship policy by Russia.
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On July 17th, City of Asylum Pittsburgh presented Writers in the Garden, an annual celebration of local poets and the Northside community.
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The fourth annual Global Shift Festival is coming to Point Park University, September 18 – 21. The festival will consist of four days of films, panels, workshops, selected shorts, and special events, all curated around the theme of “The Future Starts Now.”
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Can some countries prevent the media from full access based on it being a risk to security? Can conflict be a genuine excuse for censorship and the restriction of free expression?
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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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This September, Words without Borders presents writing about and from exile.
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