Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao reflects on Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan who has been criticized for his cooperation with China’s government and for advocating censorship.
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This week, China holds Ai WeiWei’s passport, Taliban threats to Pakistan media, and the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is released.
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Celebrated slam poet and educator Patricia Smith discusses what inspires her, exploring history through a poetic lens, and a poet’s role as an activist and a teacher.
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Aron Atabek is a prize-winning poet and political writer currently in jail in Kazakhstan. His works are highly critical of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan and his policies. Sampsonia Way is proud to present his poem, RE-ZONA-NCE.
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Swiss author and editor Bernard Comment’s The Shadow Memory is now available in English for the first time. Comment will be coming to Pittsburgh to read at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh on October 29.
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Author Ko Ko Thett remembers Rugged Gold, a poetry chapbook series produced by the students of Yangon Institute of Technology, a university which was shut down due to student protests.
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By the time San San Nweh was fifteen, she was a correspondent for three newspapers. Since then she has published many novels, short stories and poems and worked with Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.
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By the time San San Nweh was fifteen, she was a correspondent for three newspapers. Since then she has published many novels, short stories and poems and worked with Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.
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Burmese poet, activist, and editor Nyein Thit talks about his experience in prison and his documentaries on Burma’s forced labor camps in this video interview. Nyein Thit also reads his poem “Peace on the Table.”
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In this interview author and poet Thomas Sayers Ellis sat down with Pittsburgh-based poet Bonita Lee Penn to talk about his personal relationship with the oral tradition, the founding of the Dark Room Collective, and the future of language and motion.
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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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