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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From the green room in Alphabet City, as he prepared for his reading, sam sax was kind enough to speak to Sampsonia Way about the precarious nature of language and the power and history of madness. sax was […]
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Hanif Abdurraqib visited City of Asylum in early February to read from his new book Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, a collection of essays about A Tribe Called Quest’s rap […]
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“I was writing about Cubans I knew…the ones who are not just separated from Cuba or distanced from their heritage, but ones who are growing up outside of the familiar Cuban locales in America.”
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Chicana writer Helena Maria Viramontes writes narratives that are resilient in their unrelenting love of life and all of humanity–a necessity for the political era of Trump.
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Writers from Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Iran, the United States and Vietnam answer the question: “What are your obsessions as a writer?”
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A conversation between Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas and Dominican author Aurora Arias on identity and how it manifests in their lives and their writing.
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