In the second of three Writer’s Block installments with Cave Canem faculty, Amber Flora Thomas talks about the expectations she faces as a black poet and offers advice to young writers.
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In the first of three Writer’s Block installments with Cave Canem faculty, Willie Perdomo describes the influence of cityscapes on his writing, the characters that call to him, and the sacred space of poetry.
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PEN America’s latest report highlights the censorship of foreign literature in China.
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Three poems from Black Words Matter, written by Baltimore students about their experiences with racism and police brutality.
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Two poems by columnist and PEN Turkey President Tarik Günersel.
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Migration, banishment, and estrangement have long been themes of Arabic literature, and much of 2014’s Arabic translated literature took exile as a central theme.
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“I send all dried fruits to the soldiers before they rot / So it can fashion the tongue to speak.” Here are two new poems by Elham Malekpoor, an exiled Iranian poet and LGBT and human rights activist.
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How does a country’s literature recover after years of mass censorship?
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Until the 1990s, Olga Sedakova’s books were not available in Russia because they failed to align with prescribed official aesthetics. Sampsonia Way presents an excerpt from Sedakova’s forthcoming book, In Praise of Poetry.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block, Yankunytjatjara Australian poet Ali Cobby Eckermann talks about global English, the limits of the written word, and the exile of indigenous voices.
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