Author Irina Reyn’s female protagonists are the opposite of content, and that gives her more fodder for the tension that drives her fiction.
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An interview with Sicilian playwright Lina Prosa and journalist Anna Barbera about Lampedusa Beach, a play that tells the story of the European refugee crisis.
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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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Read Hang Dogg, a poem from Emanuel’s collection Noose and Hook, which explores America’s wars, food, poetry, painting, death—and oh yes, dogs.
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City of Asylum/Pittsburgh partners with Cave Canem to host a poetry reading with Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Natasha Trethewey and Amiri Baraka.
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