Poems from acclaimed poet and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady: “Don’t Bum Out The Musicians,” “Toi,” and “My Niece Marie Explains Her Michael Jackson Project.” Also included, an audio clip of Eady reading “Coltrane’s House”.
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In collaboration with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s “Distinctively Dutch” festival, City of Asylum Pittsburgh presents an evening with poets Pieter Boksma, Hélène Gelèns, Erik Jan Harmens, Lucas Hirsch, John Schoorl, and Joos Zwagerman. Also featuring members of the Living Room Chamber Music Project. FREE EVENT. Get the details, RSVP, and share!
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On March 22 City of Asylum/Pittsburgh will host a reading by Bosnian writer Ismet Prcic who will read from his novel Shards which was listed as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times.
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Three previously unpublished poems by Soheil Najm: “Adam the Neglected,” “Black Paradise,” and “The Bird of Possibility,” which Najm says are “part of a large project, telling aspects of the life we have lived in our region during the last decades.”
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Three previously unpublished poems by Cave Canem founder Cornelius Eady: “‘I Believe I’ll Make A Change’: A Duet Between Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell”; “Father Frances at Mt. St. Alphonus”; and “Eisa Davis Sings.”
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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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Read about the work and experiences of writers, editors, bloggers, cartoonists, journalists–and a musician–from Ireland, Kenya, China, Mexico, Burma, Afghanistan, and other countries around the world.
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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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Cartoonists at Risk and Their Defenders
Sampsonia Way presents Cartoonists Rights Network International, a cartoon-focused human rights organization, along with several of its affiliates and their work. READ
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