City of Asylum

For two years we provide a furnished house, a living stipend, medical coverage, and help in transitioning to potentially permanent exile.

(c) Beowulf Sheehan

Khet Mar
is City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s current writer-in-residence.  She is a journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist from Burma.  She and her husband Than Htay, a visual artist, are creating the third house in our “house publications” project on Sampsonia Way.  The couple has two sons, aged 8 and 12.

Khet Mar at PEN World Voices

Than Htay in Gestures at the Mattress Factory

City of Asylum/Pittsburgh's "house permutation" project in Ode Magazine
 

Huang Xiang
China

The University of California has published A Lifetime is a Promise to Keep:  Poems of Huang Xiang.  This bi-lingual selection includes several unusual prose poems, along with several of his calligraphies.  English translations are by Michelle Yeh, who also has written an introductory essay on the poetry.  She discusses the poems at length, providing both aesthetic and political contexts. 

To order:  University of California

 

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Thanks to John Allison and Cecile Desandre, Brian Kaminski and Cindy Nichols, Sylvia Rohr, Ann McStay, James and Wendy Osher, Robert and Marcia Frumerman, Dawn Seckler, and Ming Jian Hua for donating bicycles to the family of the new writer-in-residence.

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IRAN UNVEILED

A Collaboration with American Shorts @ WYEP

The program will feature two noteworthy Iranian writers with their personal stories of Iran.  

Moniro Ravanipour is a novelist and short story writer whose work, considered nonconformist and honest in its portrayal of Iranians, has elicited increased Iranian government scrutiny; in 2006, all copies of her current work were stripped from bookstore shelves. She is currently a resident writer at City of Asylum/Las Vegas.

 

Anahita Firouz, In the Walled Gardens, has lived in Pittsburgh since fleeing Iran during the Revolution in 1979. She is presently at work on her second novel.

 

Thursday, July 23, 2009, 7 pm

WYEP

67 Bedford Square (South Side)

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Jazz Poetry Concert 2009

Saturday, September 12 at 7:30 pm

"What is Home"

from Jazz Poetry 2008