The third installment of Reading of the World series features a reading by Poet Laureate of South Africa (2006), Keorapetse Kgositsile, accompanied by saxophonist and composer Oliver Lake.
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Poems from acclaimed poet and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady: “Don’t Bum Out The Musicians,” “Toi,” and “My Niece Marie Explains Her Michael Jackson Project.” Also included, an audio clip of Eady reading “Coltrane’s House”.
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In collaboration with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s “Distinctively Dutch” festival, City of Asylum Pittsburgh presents an evening with poets Pieter Boksma, Hélène Gelèns, Erik Jan Harmens, Lucas Hirsch, John Schoorl, and Joos Zwagerman. Also featuring members of the Living Room Chamber Music Project. FREE EVENT. Get the details, RSVP, and share!
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The 7th annual Jazz Poetry Concert featured writers Sonia Sanchez, Israel Centeno, Khet Mar, Hind Shoufani, Alexandra Petrova, and Tommi Parkko, accompanied by jazz musician Oliver Lake and the jazz trio Tarbaby.
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French-Martinican writer and filmmaker Fabienne Kanor has been a writer-in-residence at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh for the past three months. Before returning to France, City of Asylum hosted a reading for her and Marvin Victor, another writer-in-residence. […]
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Writers Colleen J. McElroy, Carl Phillips, and Natasha Trethewey, faculty members of African-American poetry workshop Cave Canem, weigh in on the debate around Black History Month’s relevance.
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Three previously unpublished poems by Soheil Najm: “Adam the Neglected,” “Black Paradise,” and “The Bird of Possibility,” which Najm says are “part of a large project, telling aspects of the life we have lived in our region during the last decades.”
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