Sangamithra Iyer

Sep 24, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Sangamithra Iyer

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. The last time I saw Giannina Braschi was a year ago at the 92NY in New York City. The auditorium was packed—800-plus New Yorkers convening to celebrate the launch of my monumental Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Latine Women. Braschi, one of the 140 brilliant writers featured in the anthology, read an excerpt of her new book, Putinoika (FlowerSong Press, 2024), and introduced the world to Putinas.

Sep 24, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Sangamithra Iyer

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. The last time I saw Giannina Braschi was a year ago at the 92NY in New York City. The auditorium was packed—800-plus New Yorkers convening to celebrate the launch of my monumental Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Latine Women. Braschi, one of the 140 brilliant writers featured in the anthology, read an excerpt of her new book, Putinoika (FlowerSong Press, 2024), and introduced the world to Putinas.

Sep 17, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Sangamithra Iyer |Renee H. Shea

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. James Baldwin, whose hundredth birthday we recently celebrated, once declared that besides bearing witness to America’s perennial and intolerable abuse of its Black and colored citizens, his vision as an artist was to “build a table” on which people would “eat for a thousand years.” African Americans like James E. Cherry who grew up reading Baldwin were inspired by his gift of courage and truth-telling.

Aug 28, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Alaaeldin Mahmoud |Sangamithra Iyer |Aitana Bellido |Susan Blumberg-Kason

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. I first came across Cara Lopez Lee on a listserv group (remember those!) for authors who write about Asia. Cara’s memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands: Love, Travel, and the Power of Running Away, was about to come out—this was ten years ago—and I was intrigued by her story because I, too, had written a memoir, about a rocky relationship in Hong Kong and China and my own running away.

Aug 20, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Ipek Sahinler |Sangamithra Iyer |Aitana Bellido |Renee H. Shea

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Described by Iron Twine Press as “the most accomplished writer most Americans have never heard of,” Lyn Coffin (b. 1943) is a prolific contemporary US poet, writer, and literary translator. Her impressive career spans more than five decades, during which she’s published over thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, and translation.