“Tourist” and “Boat People”
Don’t take a picture of my burro / My burro’s load’s too heavy / And he’s too small / And he has no food here / Don’t take a… More
PEN Center Sets International Literature Festival
The PEN American Center has announced the lineup for its annual World PEN Voices Festival of International Literature, which will run from April 27 through May 3 in New… More
The Real Worlds
Many of us who come from the Caribbean are astounded when people speak of the “implausibility” of magical realism. For in our worldview, as in our much-loved Gabriel García… More
Does It Work?
MIAMI—A few years ago, as I worked on a documentary film about torture survivors in exile from my native Haiti, I met a young woman who under questioning by… More
November 24, 2004 | A Very Haitian Story
Miami—On Sunday, Oct. 24, United Nations troops and Haitian police forces launched a military operation in Bel-Air, one of the poorest and most volatile neighborhoods in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.… More
Edwidge Danticat Reads Poems “Tourist” and “Boat People” by Felix Morisseau-Leroy
Edwidge Danticat reads the poems "Tourist" and "Boat People" by Felix Morisseau-Leroy (translated from Haitian Creole by Jack Hirschman) at the event Evolution/Revolution, part of the 2009 PEN World… More
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