The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley is the author of a half-red sea (2006) and the new black (2011), among other works. Her writing has been featured in several anthologies of African American and contemporary poetry and...
View ArticleCave Canem at City of Asylum: Evie Shockley
On June 16, Cave Canem, in partnership with City of Asylum, presented a free reading in the Alphabet City Tent where Evie Shockley read along with Kevin Young and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon. Evie...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval, a 2009 National Book Award finalist, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as Poems in Conversation and a...
View ArticleCave Canem at City of Asylum: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
On June 16, Cave Canem, in partnership with City of Asylum, presented a free reading in the Alphabet City Tent where Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon read along with Kevin Young and Evie Shockley. Lyrae Van...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Q&A with Kevin Young
Kevin Young is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose. A poet, editor, essayist, and curator from Topeka, Kansas, his numerous awards include the Paterson Poetry Prize for his poetry...
View ArticleCave Canem at City of Asylum: Kevin Young
On June 16, Cave Canem, in partnership with City of Asylum, presented a free reading in the Alphabet City Tent where Kevin Young read along with Evie Shockley and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon. Kevin Young...
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Poems and Music by Irakli Kakabadze
Irakli Kakabadze Irakli Kakabadze is a prolific writer, performance artist, and activist from Georgia. A political and satirical writer, Kakabadze has published five books and more than fifty short...
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Slideshow: The Turkey Coup Attempt
On July 16, 2016, a faction of Turkey’s army attempted to seize power from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In the course of a single night, soldiers raided television stations, protesters were shot at,...
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Tout va Bien! by Mana Neyestani
In 2006, Mana Neyestani was arrested for a cartoon that drew attention to the plight of the minority Azeri community in northwestern Iran. Published in the children’s section of a government-run...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Q&A with Raza Rumi
A Pakistani journalist, writer, and public policy practitioner, Raza Rumi’s life exemplifies the intersection of the personal and the political. In 2014, his work in broadcast media brought him under...
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Slideshow: Cartoons of Iraqi Artist Ashraf Atraqchi
Ashraf Atraqchi is an artist, writer, and curator from Mosul, Iraq. His work—which focuses on art, cultural production, and freedom of expression in the Middle East— has been published in Iraqiyoon...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Q&A with Israel Centeno
Israel Centeno is the author of poetry, short stories, and ten novels and is regarded as one of the most important Venezuelan literary figures of the past fifty years. He has won numerous awards,...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Q&A with Achy Obejas and Aurora Arias
Aurora Arias is a poet and fiction writer from the Dominican Republic. She has two books of poetry, Vivienda de Pajaros and Piano Lila, and three books of short stories, Invi’s Paradise y Otros...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Q&A with Joy Katz
Joy Katz is an American poet, artist and essayist. Her 2013 full-length collection, All You Do is Perceive was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and a Stahlecker Selection at Four Way Books....
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Q&A with Whitney Terrell
Whitney Terrell was an embedded reporter in Iraq during 2006 and 2010, covering the war for The Washington Post Magazine, Slate and NPR. His war novel, The Good Lieutenant, moves in reverse, telling...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block Round-Up: Obsessions
In 2016, one of our reoccurring questions of the writers who came to visit City of Asylum was: “What are your obsessions as a writer?” We received many different answers, from writers from Mexico,...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Q&A with Adriana Ramirez
Adriana Ramirez is a Mexican-Colombian nonfiction writer, storyteller, and performance poet. Her memoir, Dead Boys, was the recipient of the 2015 PEN/FUSION Emerging Writer’s Prize. In 2016, she was...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Q&A with Osama Alomar
Osama Alomar is a Syrian “very short story” writer and the author of Fullblood Arabian, published by New Directions. Born in Damascus in 1968, Alomar now lives in Chicago. He is a regular contributor...
View Article“Collage” by Israel Centeno
On September 16, jazz greats Hamiet Bluiett and Roger Humphries performed an evening of jazz at City of Asylum. Between sets, the musicians collaborated with poet Israel Centeno–a writer-in-residence...
View Article“White: An Abstract” by Joy Katz
On September 16, jazz greats Hamiet Bluiett and Roger Humphries performed an evening of jazz at City of Asylum. Between sets, the musicians collaborated with poet Joy Katz for this jazz and poetry...
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