The Many Complexities of Bewketu Seyoum

Ethiopian novelist and poet Bewketu Seyoum discusses his writing process, how he remains connected to Ethiopia, and how the pandemic has inspired his writing.

Memories in Exile: Khet Mar and Her Sons on Burmese Culture and Adapting to the West

  The following conversation is part of an ongoing series called Memories in Exile, in which we interview current and former resident writers who have come to Pittsburgh and lived in exile on Sampsonia Way. The series […]

Human Nature

by M. Jay Kardon

“How do I tell you…/ I read poems in a/ patch house, Vesta 6,/ poems that celebrate/nature read in a house”

An Interview with Alane Salierno Mason

Alane Salierno Mason revisits the early days of Words Without Borders and shares a brief glimpse of her time as an at W.W. Norton.

Poetry by Bewketu Seyoum

“I will continue to want
with no getting
your warmth, your love
your arms, your thighs.
Missing you is the real disease
no vaccine can prevent it.”

– Bewketu Seyoum

Crafton-Ingram

by Lisa Pickett

“There they go marching down Ingram Avenue dressed as little monsters and witches in the annual Halloween Parade. Prancing back on over to Resurrection Sunday hunting for those Ingram Park golden Easter eggs.”

On Filmmaker Thaelman Urgelles: The Long Road From Politics to Mentorship

Thaelman Urgelles is a celebrated Venezuelan filmmaker, perhaps most well known for his 1982 film La Boda (The Wedding), which some consider to be one of the most influential Venezuelan films of all time. In La […]

a crevice, a consequence of this

by Evan Gray

tilling the garden we lifted the hands of a fawn
half-dead & cut to be

composted in nature rock is stricken with roots…