Editorial cartoonist Gianfranco Uber (Italy) comments on the reported hanging of Iranian poet Hashem Shaabani at an unidentified Iranian prison.
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On January 9, 2014Amiri Baraka, poet, playwright and activist, passed away at the age of 79. A leading figure of the Black Arts movement, today we remember Baraka by sharing an interview Sampsonia Way published in 2011, after he came to read with Cave Canem at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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Watch a short film on the acclaimed “people’s poet,” Ahmed Fouad Negm, recipient of the 2013 Prince Claus Award. A master poet, fearless social and political critic, Negm died on December 3, a few days before the award ceremony.
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Hamdy el-Gazzar remembers Egypt’s “ambassador of the poor” and poet of the January 25 Revolution. Ahmed Fouad Negm, the venerated poet and outspoken critic of power, died on December 3, a few days before being awarded the Prince Claus Award. Included is Negm’s poem “Mother Egypt”.
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A poignant message delivered by the poet Maya Angelou on behalf of the American people in memory of Nelson Mandela who died on December 5.
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A discussion on craft with acclaimed Native American poet and musician Joy Harjo widens to include stories about her family and ancestors, writers’ block, the forced exile of Native Americans in the US, and what it takes to balance her “two lovers,” music and poetry.
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Sampsonia Way shares an exclusive excerpt from Liao Yiwu’s For a Song and a Hundred Songs that details his 1990 arrest and the arrests of others in his circle.
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