For the last four years, Monterey Street in Pittsburgh’s Mexican War Streets neighborhood has become a stage for “I Don’t Know What I’d Do If I Couldn’t Speak My Mind,” an open day-long poetry event showcasing dozens of writers. We speak to event organizer Adel Fougnies.
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A new amendment to the Offenses Code of Russia threatens the LGBT community. We interview Dmitry Kuzmin, an openly gay poet and publisher living in Moscow, about the political, cultural, and literary impacts this law could have.
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To mark the American debut of an anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry, Sampsonia Way reprints Khet Mar’s interview with editors James Byrne and poet Ko Ko Thett, in which they discuss the challenges of compiling the anthology, and Burma’s transition out of a culture of censorship.
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Ebullient and ever-interested in collaging and layering, in this interview the poet, novelist and playwright Chris Abani talks about his writing and editing processes, where he gets his ideas, why he’s never experienced writer’s block, and his many cross-discipline obsessions.
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Sampsonia Way presents the opinions of three members of the Turkish Media -Zeynep Oral, Mine Kırıkkanat, and Süreyyya Evren- on the events of the Turkish Spring.
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In this interview Tjeerd Royaards talks about founding Cartoon Movement, the advantages of “comics journalism” and the personal conflicts of uncensored speech.
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In this exclusive interview New York Times correspondent Andrew Jacobs discusses press freedom in China, China’s censorship policies, and free speech in the U.S.
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In this interview Melong Band’s guitarist and singer talk about Chinese censorship, the exiled Tibetan community, and preserving culture through music.
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In this exclusive interview, cartoonist Lilia Halloul discusses free speech in Tunisia, what still needs to change, and why some cartoonists don’t feel safe.
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Kianoush Ramezani describes the three kinds of cartoonists in Iran, government controlled cultural institutions, and the government efforts to control the internet.
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