June 19, 2024
Uncrafted #1: An Interview with Chase Berggrun
by Hazem Fahmy
But for me, the ways in which poems allow a reader to access feeling, I think those are also the ways in which poems are really useful political tools. Because a poem does not allow politics to be disentangled from the material reality of feeling.
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March 4, 2024
A Spectrum of Cultural Memory—In Conversation with Lucia Kagramanyan of Panorama Yerevan
In January, Assistant Editor Aram Kavoossi sat down for a Zoom conversation with Lucia Kagramanyan, host of the bimonthly Panorama Yerevan program on NTS Radio. A resident DJ for the London-based NTS as well as for the Bethlehem-based Radio Alhara, Kagramanyan’s Panorama presents a kaleidoscopic soundscape of Armenian music from Armenia and its diasporas, reaching across social, historical, and musicological categories. Kagramanyan’s latest broadcast, “Armenian Liturgy for Palestine,” aired...
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June 12, 2023
The Ineffable Resonance–Safia Elhillo interviews Charif Shanahan
When we sit down and read a poem, what I believe is happening is that there’s this alchemical process between the words on the page — the imagination and the craft of the writer — and the subjectivity, the imagination, the personal history of the individual reader.
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