On June 21, Cave Canem, in partnership with City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, presented its annual Pittsburgh reading where National Book Award winning poet Terrance Hayes read, along with poets Angela Jackson, Nikki Giovanni, Nikky Finney, and Thomas Sayers Ellis.
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As we anticipate this year’s Cave Canem poetry reading at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, we offer a compilation of interviews with past guest writers. Know what the writers think about Cave Canem and poetry.
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Sampsonia Way joins the celebration of National Poetry Month by recognizing ten poets who have contributed to our pages. Watch and read their voices here.
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In commemoration of Black History Month, Sampsonia Way magazine recognizes the African-American authors who have contributed their transformative words to our pages.
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From Kenyan poet Philo Ikonya to National Book Award-winner Terrance Hayes, Sampsonia Way has featured the work of poets and novelists from around the world, many of whom have dealt first-hand with censorship and persecution.
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An exchange between Pittsburgh poet Terrance Hayes and Flemish novelist Paul Mennes. The writers were the inaugural authors in a new city-to-city “writer residency exchange” between City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and Het Beschrijf of Brussels.
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For the first time this summer, City of Asylum created an exchange with Passa Porta, a literary organization in Brussels. It brought Paul Mennes, a Belgian writer, to Pittsburgh and sent Terrance Hayes, a National Book Award winning poet, to Brussels
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On Thursday June 23, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh partnered with the African-American poetry collective Cave Canem to host a reading with poets Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Natasha Trethewey, and Amiri Baraka.
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Read Hang Dogg, a poem from Emanuel’s collection Noose and Hook, which explores America’s wars, food, poetry, painting, death—and oh yes, dogs.
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Sampsonia Way's companion guide to City of Asylum’s Exiled Voice of China and Tibet literary event, featuring standout pieces from its three year coverage of exiled and persecuted writers. READ
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