In Knocking on the Door of… we present interviews with fellow residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside. Our second interview is with Doug Nimmo, owner of Doug’s Market, who talked to us about his love of the Northside, a ghost in the building, and his market’s opening day.
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Madwomen in the Attic celebrates three decades of writing workshops for women with readings by and in honor of its founders. The program, housed at Carlow University and open to the public, offers six different workshops.
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In this video, Hayes reads the poem Cocktails with Orpheus from his National Book Award-winning collection Lighthead, at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh.
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City of Asylum/Pittsburgh has launched a new, comprehensive literary calendar for the city of Pittsburgh. The new interactive calendar includes literary events of all types and genres.
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In this interview Shahla Talebi discusses her experience as a political prisoner in Iran, the current political landscape in the Middle East, and the role of women in Muslim countries.
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In Knocking on the Door of… we present interviews with fellow residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside. Our first interview is with performer and teacher Barbara Russell.
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n this video, Sofi Oksanen reads an excerpt of her novel Purge, in which a young woman escaping the sex-slave trade ends up in the backyard of an Estonian woman who survived sexual assault at the hands of Soviet occupiers.
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City of Asylum/Pittsburgh was a winner in the national “Space for Change” competition, sponsored by the LINC-Ford Foundation, for its new Literary Center in the Northside.
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This video shows highlights of the 2010 Jazz Poetry Concert in which Yusef Komunyakaa, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Khet Mar, Huang Xiang, Hinemoana Baker, and Maryia Martysevich read their work to the musical accompaniment of a 16-piece ensemble led by jazz legend Oliver Lake.
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Professor Heather Pinson reflects on her experiences of the 2010 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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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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