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Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

The Author of “The Island of Last Things” Visits Alcatraz and Offers an Antidote to Doomerism

By Emma Sloley | August 14, 2025

Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

“In literature I have found a landscape or galaxy that is vaster and more enduring than a country or a state.”

By Ha Jin | July 28, 2025

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

The Author of “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home” in Conversation With Sahar Delijani

By Sahar Delijani | July 17, 2025

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

Oliver Baez Bendorf: “There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.”

By Oliver Baez Bendorf | May 5, 2025

Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English: <br>On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another

Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English:
On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another

Sahar Delijani Navigates the Complexity of Conjuring Her Old Life in a New Language

By Sahar Delijani | January 14, 2025

Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | December 9, 2024

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Romeo Oriogun on Life as a Poet in Exile from Nigeria

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By The Common | April 22, 2022

“Exile”: For Ilya Kaminsky

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A Poem by Carolyn Forché

By Carolyn Forché | March 28, 2022

Mona Kareem on Writing a Multigenerational Story of Statelessness

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Crossing the Distance Between Fact and Truth in a Story About Love and Exile

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By Yara Zgheib | January 4, 2022

Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

Mona Kareem on the Heaviness of Absence and Those We Leave Behind

By Mona Kareem | October 25, 2021

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