From our ongoing video series The Writer’s Block, a Q&A with Dutch novelist and poet Erik Jan Harmens conducted during his visit last month to City of Asylum Pittsburgh. In his writing Harmens has dealt with the theme of love as well as terrorism.
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From our ongoing series “The Writer’s Block,” a Q&A with investigative journalist and poet John Schoorl conducted during his visit to City of Asylum Pittsburgh. Schoorl is the author of A Capella and Uitloopgroef (‘Run-out-groove’).
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In this video Dutch poet Hélène Gelèns reads “Gedicht voor twee stemmen en een klok” (Poem for two voices and a clock) at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. Hélène Gelèns is a writer of poetry, essays, and short prose.
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From our ongoing series The Writer’s Block, a Q&A with Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. Hirsch is the author of two collections of poems, familie gebiedt (2006) and tastzin (2009).
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A video of our interview with Hélène Gelèns, writer of poetry, essays, and short prose, conducted on Sampsonia Way, in front of the Jazz House. Gelèns and other Dutch poets came to Pittsburgh to read at a City of Asylum event.
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On May 5 COAP will be concluding it’s Reading the World 2012 series with three presentations under the event Exiled Voices of Iran. The final presentation is a free concert from The Casualty Process, an Iranian electronic rock band in exile.
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In this interview novelist Ismet Prcic discusses the seven year process of writing Shards, the sometimes fine line between reality and fiction in the novel, and the ways in which war can restructure the fabric of life as we know it.
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