Liu Xia, a poet and wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been under house arrest since October 2010. In this video, secretly recorded in December, Liu reads two of her new works.
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From Hamdy el-Gazzar’s latest work, The Book of the Four Lines, 10 quatrains on Love.
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From Hamdy el-Gazzar’s latest work, The Book of the Four Lines, 10 quatrains on Love.
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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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In this exclusive interview, Tienchi Martin-Liao sits down with her long-time friend and colleague, the celebrated exiled writer Liao Yiwu. They talked about literature, emigration, and politics. If they had tried to have this conversation in China, it could have been considered illegal.
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In Rules for Translators, Sampsonia Way presents five selections from a series by Arabic Literature featuring celebrated and award-winning literary translators about their “rules” for translation. Third in our feature is George Messo, a poet, teacher, and leading translator of Turkish poetry.
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In Rules for Translators, Sampsonia Way presents five selections from a series by Arabic Literature, featuring celebrated and award-winning literary translators about their “rules” for translation. First in our feature is Pierre Joris, a poet, translator, and author of the blog Nomadics.
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