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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Angela Jackson
Photo: Camila Centeno The Writer’s Block is an ongoing video series of interviews with visiting writers at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. In these Q&A’s, conducted on Sampsonia Way, writers sit down...
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To fight impunity, cycle of fear, silence must be broken
María Salazar-Ferro / Coordinator, Impunity Campaign & Journalist Assistance Program Three years ago, on November 23, 2009, 30 journalists and two media workers were brutally killed in the southern...
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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Thomas Sayers Ellis
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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Hilary Masters
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Northside Neighbors: Knocking on the Door of The Northside Chronicle
Photo: TJ Murphy Pittsburgh’s Northside is made up of eighteen different neighborhoods, and just as each of these vibrant neighborhoods is unique, so are its residents. Artists, journalists, and...
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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Eduardo Halfon
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Slideshow: The Cartoons of Atila Özer
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“Women’s History is Women’s Right. It is an essential and indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long-range vision.” -Dr. Gerda Lerner TJ Dema, Batswana poet....
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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei reflects on freedom of expression in Weiwei-isms Copyright Ai Weiwei, Princeton University Press http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Express-Edited.jpg...
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Northside Neighbors: Knocking on the Door of Roger Humphries
Photo: YouTube Pittsburgh’s Northside is made up of eighteen different neighborhoods, and just as each of these vibrant neighborhoods is unique, so are its residents. Artists, journalists, and...
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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A With Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Photo: David Lewetag, Elevation Loft. The Writer’s Block is an ongoing video series of interviews with visiting writers at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. In these Q&A’s, conducted on Sampsonia Way,...
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Responding to an Ongoing Problem in American Poetry: Cave Canem 2013
Sapphire on Precious’ Emancipation http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sapphire.png Sapphire on Precious’ Emancipation"> There’s So Much to Explore: A Conversation with Poet...
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Video: Editor Andrew Jewell Reads Willa Cather’s Letters
Photo: Josh Barnes. On April 30th City of Asylum/Pittsburgh hosted a reading of the letters of Willa Cather by Andrew Jewell, co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather. The author of works like...
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"Turkey’s Erdogan takes on protesters… and Twitter," France 24, 2013 http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2-copy.jpg "Turkey’s Erdogan takes on protesters… and Twitter," France 24,...
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The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Chris Abani
Poet Chris Abani. Photos: Orlando Luis Pardo. The Writer’s Block is an ongoing video series of interviews with visiting writers at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. In these Q&A’s, conducted on Sampsonia...
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