On Thursday June 23, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh partnered with the African-American poetry collective Cave Canem to host a reading with poets Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Natasha Trethewey, and Amiri Baraka.
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“Calculations,” a poem from Boomerang by Brenda Cardenas. Her poetry works itself into folds of overlapping worlds: Spanish and English intermingle with ideas of childhood and adulthood, song and poem, and day and night.
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Tendai Frank Tagarira, a Zimbabwean writer currently living in Aarhus, Denmark, commemorated his one-year anniversary as an International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) guest writer with a post he sent to Sampsonia Way.
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Slide show featuring students from CAPA, Pittsburgh’s creative and performing arts school, on a recent visit to Sampsonia Way, the street that houses City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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“Walt Whitman”, a poem by Francisco Aragon, traces its roots back to Nicaraguan poet and essayist Rubén Darío. The poem effectively rests in the space between the three writers (Whitman, Darío, and Aragón), but preserves the souls of each.
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In June 2011, Sampsonia Way asked poet Cornelius Eady if there was a personal story that made him believe Cave Canem, an organization of African-American poets he co-founded in 1996, was an indispensable institution in the …
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Slide show featuring cartoons from Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaq, who recently launched his latest collection of controversial political cartoons, Even My Pen Has a Stand. It may join six of his previous collections on the country’s banned book list.
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Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi arrested in Iran and taken to Evin Prison, which is notorious for its political prisoners’ wing. Her passport confiscated, Mohammadi was unable to attend the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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This year, Melville House published Sánchez’s new book: Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today. Unable to attend a literary event in New York, she sent a recorded speech thanking her supporters everywhere.
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Ai Weiwei’s mother, Gao Ying, spoke to the press about the artist’s release last week after 81 days of unlawful detention by the Chinese Communist Party. Here is a transcript of the television interview.
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Sampsonia Way's companion guide to City of Asylum’s Exiled Voice of China and Tibet literary event, featuring standout pieces from its three year coverage of exiled and persecuted writers. READ
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