On January 25 at 7 PM, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh will host a reading featuring two visiting writers from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program: Fabienne Kanor and Marvin Victor.
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Palestinain poet Hind Shoufani came to Pittsburgh to read at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s annual Jazz Poetry concert where she read “Pick me Up,” poem dedicated to Palestine, “who defies geography.”
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In this video, Amiri Baraka reads his poem “Something in the way of things (In Town)” at a reading hosted by Cave Canem and City of Asylum Pittsburgh. The poem manifests Baraka’s quest for social justice.
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On July 27, former City of Asylum writer-in-residence Horacio Castellanos Moya bid Pittsburgh farewell with a reading from Tyrant Memory, his newest novel to be translated into English.
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In this video recorded at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, Tommy Wieringa talks about writing on adolescence, taboo subjects, and reader’s reception of his novel Joe Speedboat.
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A slide show of author Gary Shteyngart reading from his new novel, Super Sad True Love Story, at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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Photos from the 2010 Cave Canem reading at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, featuring guest writers Colleen J. McElroy, Carl Phillips, Claudia Rankine, and Sapphire.
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