Chinese Poet Duo Duo and Artist Ai Weiwei on Tiananmen Square
"After the troops opened fire, everybody started running, but nobody left." More
Robert Creeley reads “Hello”
In America, old sport, / we shoot first, talk later, / or just take you out to dinner. / No worries... More
Maurice Kenny Reading at International Writers for Peace Day
Arrows, now the skies are diseased; arrows, now the earth is diseased; arrows, now the people are sick on dreams; arrows; come back to us. Chankpe Opi Wakpala! More
Richard Gilman Reading from The Passionate War
"Bombs away—some three thousand pounds of death rained down." More
Edmund White on Gay Fiction
Once AIDS came along in 1981, gay writers were encouraged to back off from writing sex scenes. We weren’t supposed to awaken any sense of backlash against gays who… More
Zeyar Lynn Reads Two Poems
I have not written my history ... They have written my history, then they have airbrushed me from history. More
Zadie Smith: Dead White Authors and Political Identity
I never felt the need to defend the books I liked. Whatever is the best writing, as far as I can tell or feel, that’s what I’m interested in. More
Blanche Cook on Freedom of Information
"It’s really a question of censorship and political rights on every single level." More
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