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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Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara and Australian poet, read at City of Asylum’s 2014 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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In September 2014 Gerald Stern returned as a Jazz Poetry performer. Published here is a segment from his volume Not God After All, published in 2004 by local publisher Autumn House Press.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block we talk to Jamaican poet Kei Miller, who performed in the 2014 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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In this edition of the Writer’s Block, Motswana poet TJ Dema discusses language fusions, expectations for African writers, and the importance of literary community.
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A poem by TJ Dema, following her spectacular performance at the 2014 Jazz Poetry Concert. Dema is a spoken word performer and poet from Botswana.
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