Just published a feature story on book banning in Arizona for the cover of Sampsonia Way Mag!
New Feature Story: An account of the Librotraficante caravan, a book smuggling mission carrying banned literature back into Arizona. Led by writer Tony Diaz, the caravan is a response to Tucson Unified School District’s decision to eliminate it’s Mexican-American Studies program and removal of key books from the schools. Among the banned writers: Sandra Cisneros, Junot Díaz, Shakespeare, Howard Zinn, Carmen Tafolla. Share!
This your brain on procrastination.
Check out this new article I wrote for Sampsonia Way.
Today we look at countries with anti-terrorism laws where journalists and writers are in danger, or have been convicted of associating with alleged terrorist forces. Like the National Defense Authorization Act in the US, these laws outline provisions for indefinite and undisclosed detainment of citizens without trial, and in some cases for publishing information on “terrorist” groups.
Read the story at Sampsonia Way
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Not many people can say they walk into a poem three days a week for work.
The most wonderful way to write poetry
Is to stand right on your head
With mind and body as one
And dab ink
On the ground!
Today we’ll take a look at 408 Sampsonia Way, known as House Poem. Painted by Huang Xiang, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s first writer-in-residence. This house exhibits some of his poems helping to illustrate how Xiang has the right to write freely in the United States.
Huang Xiang was born in China’s Hunan Province in 1941, and has been writing poems since 1950.
House Poem is currently used as office space for Sampsonia Way Magazine.
Continue reading at Sampsonia Way
“If not for the media, I would have 80% popularity.” – Hugo Chávez
Venezuelan cartoonist Roberto Weil portrays President Hugo Chávez as a boot in response to a law which prohibits depictions of the likeness of the president and of patriotic symbols.
For more, read our piece “Under Chavez: Media Harassed with Online Hacking, Phone Tapping and Censorship.”
Take a look at OneChot’s banned video for “Rotten Town,” a song that decries the climate of violence that reigns over Venezuela’s capital Caracas. Read the article at Sampsonia Way
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Currently reading Hemmingway’s short stories. And the whole time I just have this voice/face in my head.
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