Summer Recommendations
If you're looking for book/movie/album recommendations for the dog days, check out Guernica's blog. Editors post new ones every day. Read my first one, HERE.
If you're looking for book/movie/album recommendations for the dog days, check out Guernica's blog. Editors post new ones every day. Read my first one, HERE.
Guernica released its July 1st issue today. In addition to an interview with Fatima Bhutto and loads of other gems, it contains a new poem from Oliver de la Paz. You can read it, HERE.
One of my favorite poets, W.S. Merwin, will be featured tonight on PBS. If you can access New York's Channel 13, the program will air at 9pm. If you're not in New York, you can look up your time HERE.
A new poem by Chris Tanasescu, translated by David Baker and the author now at Guernica, HERE. Enjoy!
A poem by Amjad Nasser translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
I'm reading on the radio tonight, May 20th, along with poets Ricardo Maldonado, Billy Merrill, and Matthew Pennock.
A new poem by the brilliant Gabrielle Calvocoressi, now at Guernica, HERE!
The PEN World Voices Festival is unique in its combination of literary stars with lesser-known foreign writers. The emphasis on work in translation is particularly appealing. This year, Guernica hosts an event centered around the life and work of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. It's free and open to public. It would be great to see you there!
Here's the scoop:
May 2, 2009 | Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
Introduction by Larry Siems, with Ken Wiwa, Richard North Patterson, with a reading by Steve Connell and Sekou; moderated by Okey Ndibe
On November 10, 1995, Nigeria’s military dictatorship hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, one of the country’s most acclaimed and popular writers and the leader of a grassroots environmental movement in the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta. The region still seethes with unrest and many of the issues Saro-Wiwa gave his life to raise will be the subject of a lawsuit opening in New York this week against oil interests for complicity in his murder. Join Ken Wiwa Jr. and author Richard North Patterson for a discussion of Ken Saro-Wiwa's literary and political legacy, with readings from Saro-Wiwa’s work by Steve Connell and Sekou.
When: Saturday, May 2, 2009: 1–2:30 p.m.
Where: Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
Free and open to the public
Cosponsored by Guernica Magazine and the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY
