This past September, Tarfia Faizullah flew in from Chicago to join City of Asylum as they wrapped up their 15th annual Jazz Poetry Month. Prior to her performance, Faizullah sat down in the Alphabet City green […]
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After their rehearsal for their City of Asylum reading, Roy Guzmán was kind enough to sit down and chat about poetry, language, and what words mean in times of strife. Guzmán is a Honduran-born, Miami-raised poet […]
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The following conversation is reprinted with permission of Aster(ix). If You Leave Me, the debut novel of Crystal Hana Kim, consistently topped best of lists for 2018. Though the hard realities and complexities of the Korean War […]
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Andrea Brady sat down with Sampsonia Way to discuss drones, fighting the system, and what it means to be an experimental poet. In February, Brady visited City of Asylum to read her from her newest suite of […]
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It’s not a thriller or a who-done-it. Everyone knows what the crime is, and everyone knows who committed it. The novel is about concealed knowledge, how we become what we carry undeclared.
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There’s the facts, and then there’s the truth
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Having survived a dictatorship, exile, and constant threats to her life, the French-Moroccan journalist is not interested in anything less than liberty.
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