Prayer and Meditation with Atticus Lish (video)
A wish, an invocation, an impassioned plea. For this contemplative evening of meditation, the Festival commissioned an esteemed assembly of writers and artists from a wide range of… More
Prayer and Meditation with Brenda Shaughnessy (video)
A wish, an invocation, an impassioned plea. For this contemplative evening of meditation, the Festival commissioned an esteemed assembly of writers and artists from a wide range of cultural… More
Prayer and Meditation with Colm Tóibín (video)
A wish, an invocation, an impassioned plea. For this contemplative evening of meditation, the Festival commissioned an esteemed assembly of writers and artists from a wide range of cultural… More
Prayer and Meditation with Jackie Wang and Alain Mabanckou (video)
A wish, an invocation, an impassioned plea. For this contemplative evening of meditation, the Festival commissioned an esteemed assembly of writers and artists from a wide range of cultural… More
2015 World Voices Festival Opening Night: Lola Shoneyin (audio)
For this flagship opening night event, leading writers from around the globe presented their worst- and best-case scenarios for where the world may be in the year 2050, offering… More
Memoir and Memory with Tracy K. Smith (audio)
Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens… More
Memoir and Memory with Michael Ondaatje (audio)
Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens… More
Memoir and Memory with Luc Sante (audio)
Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens… More
Stories That Traveled (audio)
Africa offers rich, exciting, and enduring tales for young U.S. readers. Three authors of books for children and young adults—a storyteller, a poet, and a novelist—reveal the ways the… More
African Poets: A New Generation (audio)
This lavishly hip and intellectually robust poetry event, presented in association with Akashic Books, which recently published the box set Eight New-Generation African Poets, brings together editors Kwame Dawes… More
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