A Zimbabwean writer exiled in Denmark, Tagarira is a staunch critic of Robert Mugabe. Here are two poems from his book Mugabe Must Go!, a concentrated political attack in the form of 87 succinct poems.
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A poem from Syrian poet Maram al-Massri from her Red Cherry on a White Tile Floor, who also spoke to Sampsonia Way about the Arab Spring and the Syrian uprising.
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The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP) — a series of online writer’s workshops run remotely by women writers based in America — allows Afghan women a forum to express and record their experiences in poems, essays and commentary without “the filter of their men and media.”
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Iranian poet, journalist, activist Asieh Amini has investigated stoning cases and speaks out against social injustices from Islamic Republic of Iran. In this interview, she talks about her exile, writing, and the power of social media in Iran.
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Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP) allows Afghan women a forum to express and record their experiences in poems, essays and commentary without “the filter of their men and media.”
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A statement by Cuban exiled journalist and poet Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso to the PEN International Writers in Prison Committee annual conference in Brussels.
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On March 3rd, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh conducted a reading of material from Burmese writer-in-residence Khet Mar, whose stories and poems were presented in Burmese, English, and Spanish. The reading featured Khet Mar, translator Michelle Gil-Montero, and poet and translator Roman Antopolsky.
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