Last September, Alicia Ostriker performed in City of Asylum’s Jazz and Poetry Festival. Ostriker’s performance was at once graceful and snappy. Reading alongside the evening’s jazz band, her words plucked at the heartstrings of the […]
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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 recent delay of a child marriage ban in Kentucky, USA is part of a global issue of human rights.
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The US Federal Communication Commission voted today to dismantle so-called net-neutrality regulations which prevent broadband providers from blocking certain websites or charging for certain web content.
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Dawn Lundy Martin reads from her newest collection, Good Stock, Strange Blood (Coffee House,2017).
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Major Jackson reads at City of Asylum as part of Cave Canem’s annual celebration of black poetry.
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PJ Harvey and ICORN rapper Ramy Essam’s song “The Camp” details the conditions faced by displaced Syrian children in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Proceeds from the sale of the song will be donated to the Beyond Association, a NGO which imrpoves the conditions of refugees in Lebanon, like those in Bekaa Valley.
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