Author Ko Ko Thett remembers Rugged Gold, a poetry chapbook series produced by the students of Yangon Institute of Technology, a university which was shut down due to student protests.
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By the time San San Nweh was fifteen, she was a correspondent for three newspapers. Since then she has published many novels, short stories and poems and worked with Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.
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By the time San San Nweh was fifteen, she was a correspondent for three newspapers. Since then she has published many novels, short stories and poems and worked with Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.
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Burmese poet, activist, and editor Nyein Thit talks about his experience in prison and his documentaries on Burma’s forced labor camps in this video interview. Nyein Thit also reads his poem “Peace on the Table.”
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In this interview author and poet Thomas Sayers Ellis sat down with Pittsburgh-based poet Bonita Lee Penn to talk about his personal relationship with the oral tradition, the founding of the Dark Room Collective, and the future of language and motion.
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In Ghosts of Revolution Shahla Talebi writes about her first imprisonment as a political prisoner before the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Read an exclusive excerpt of the memoir.
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“Más de una vez me he preguntado qué tipo de escritor hubiera sido, qué tipo de obra hubiera escrito, si no hubiera pasado tantas y tantas horas de mi vida en una barra, en el derroche de las energías vitales y en la saturación de los sentidos.”
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