Two poems: Achilles’ Heel by Khin Aung Aye and The Sniper by Pandora. Both poets will be included in the upcoming anthology of Burmese poetry, Bones Will Crow.
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Poems by Burmese poets Khin Aung Aye and Pandora. Their poetry will be included in the upcoming Burmese poetry anthology Bones Will Crow, edited by James Byrne and Ko Ko Thett.
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Earlier this year, ICORN’s Stavanger City of Refuge in Norway opened its doors to Norwan, a 27 year-old Afghan poet and a member of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project. Read Norwan’s poem, “Sack of Winds”.
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In this interview, writer Philo Ikonya talks about her writing, activism, being a mother in exile, and freedom of expression in Kenya. Now president of PEN Kenya, Ikonya has been arrested multiple times for protesting, was severely beaten while in police custody in 2009.
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Poet Nancy Krygowski reads the English translation of Please Look After Mom as part of a reading sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and PEN/America. The reading also featured authors Hervé Le Tellier and David Bezmozgis.
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In this video, alto saxophonist Darius Jones talks about composing outside of a traditional 20th century musical structure and fans downloading his songs illegally, and the physicality of the saxophone and human voice.
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In this video from 2010′s Cave Canem reading, poet and Cave Canem fellow Colleen J McElroy reads four of her poems: “Military Woman Evolution,” “R & R,” “Fairytales,” and “Caught in the Crosswalk.”
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