Eileen Myles talks pitbulls and pronouns with Sampsonia Way.
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Natalie Diaz talks with Sampsonia Way about her language revitalization work, poetry, how we talk about anxiety and what it might have to tell us.
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Dawn Lundy Martin reads from her newest collection, Good Stock, Strange Blood (Coffee House,2017).
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Turkish poet and playwright Tarik Günersel imagines the voice of Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.
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Dawn Lundy Martin is interested in the ways that language is a time traveller- how it lives in the past and present, and how it can be used to create a future to live within. She […]
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Last September, Alicia Ostriker performed in City of Asylum’s Jazz and Poetry Festival. Ostriker’s performance was at once graceful and snappy. Reading alongside the evening’s jazz band, her words plucked at the heartstrings of the […]
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This past September, Tarfia Faizullah flew in from Chicago to join City of Asylum as they wrapped up their 15th annual Jazz Poetry Month. Prior to her performance, Faizullah sat down in the Alphabet City green […]
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After their rehearsal for their City of Asylum reading, Roy Guzmán was kind enough to sit down and chat about poetry, language, and what words mean in times of strife. Guzmán is a Honduran-born, Miami-raised poet […]
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Our bodies and minds can be understood as containers, or vessels. They’re storing things, they’re storing memories, or they may be actively trying to forget certain things, withdraw certain items. So when we enter rooms, when we enter spaces, what are the things that we are carrying? What are the things we are always holding and bringing with us?
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