“I never wrote poetry to clash with any side.” Mazen Maarouf, a Palestinian poet and writer raised in Lebanon, currently lives in exile in Iceland. In this interview, he reveals why he doesn’t write political poetry and how he approaches the translation process.
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“It took about twelve and a half years to write Family Life, so it wasn’t so much that I prepared for that voice and did it, as if preparing for a role.” In this interview, celebrated author Akhil Sharma discusses his painstaking writing process and the careful construct of his latest novel.
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In this segment of The Writer’s Block, Manuel Gonzales, author of The Miniature Wife and Other Tales talks about genre classification, why he writes better when stressed, and his work with the Austin Bat Cave.
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In February Manuel Gonzales came to City of Asylum Pittsburgh to read from his collection of short stories, The Miniature Wife and Other Tales. In this exclusive video he reads the grisly and hilarious “Cash to a Killing.”
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block we talk to poet, novelist, and playwright Angela Jackson. Jackson is a faculty member of Cave Canem.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block we speak with poet Nikky Finney, recipient of the National Book Award in Poetry. Finney is a faculty member of Cave Canem.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block, we talk with poet Patricia Smith about the relationship between poetry and teaching and the role of the poet in society.
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