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October 10, 2019: “Pittsburgh’s vibrant jazz scene in words, notes and pictures” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 30, 2019: “RAD Interview: Abby Lembersky & Tommy Neslon – City of Asylum” – WQED
September 26, 2019: “RAD board approves all 12 semifinalists for $3.49 million in RADical grants” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 6, 2019: “Iranian-Born Artists Kick Off Jazz Poetry Festival” – WESA
August 26, 2019: “Reading at Alphabet City Highlights Award-Winning Prison Writers” – WESA
August 5, 2019: “Rose All Day!” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 17, 2019: “Things to Do: Pittsburgh” – The Washington Post
April 16, 2019: “Is it harder for women restaurateurs to navigate the industry?” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 21, 2019: “Bookstore manager to attend world’s oldest book fair in Germany” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 14, 2019: “Can a Blind Date Help bring Down Border Walls?” – Saveur
February 1, 2019: “Chef promotes marriage between immigrants, U.S. citizens through matchmaking dinners in Pittsburgh” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
December 20, 2018: “Seven spots that make Pittsburgh a better place” – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 21, 2018: “Refugee writers continue to find sanctuary at City of Asylum” – Pittsburgh City Paper
September 7, 2018: “Exiled Turkish Author Speaks on Freedom of Expression” – WESA
August 15, 2018: “Pittsburghers buying into City of Asylum Books” – Pittsburgh City Paper
July 24, 2018: “City of Asylum named 2018 Champion in Action” – Trib Live
July 23, 2018: “An introduction to TJ Murphy and Reel Q” – The World of Apu
May 3, 2018: “Indie saxophonist Mike Casey Pittsburgh debut on May 16th” – Pittsburgh Music Magazine
May 1, 2018: “Media & Marginalization: Positively Queer” – QueerPGH
April 20, 2018: “Rick Sebak gets nebby with local writers in new WQED-TV documentary” – Trib Live
April 20, 2018: ““INTERVIEW WITH A BOOKSTORE: CITY OF ASYLUM BOOKS” – Literary Hub
April 19, 2018: “Fashion, food trucks, music and more. What’s going on in Pittsburgh this weekend?” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 11, 2018: “NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania and City of Asylum launch mental-health series with author Jordan Corcoran” – City Paper
April 10, 2018: “ACTUALLY COOL THINGS TO DO WHEN SOMEONE VISITS PITTSBURGH” – The Thrillist
March 30, 2018: “What to do this week, April 1-7” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 27, 2018: “Pittsburgh Symphony’s summer concert series includes Yo-Yo Ma date” – Trib Live
March 26, 2018: “‘How To Play A Poem’ Encourages Readers To Simply Enjoy Poetry, Set Classroom Analysis Aside” – WESA
March 14, 2018: “National ceramic arts education conference is a feat of clay” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 14, 2018: “Jonathan Finlayson performs at City of Asylum” – Pittsburgh City Paper
March 13, 2018: “4 Questions: Shobha Rao” – Littsburgh
March 1, 2018: “Bassist Joe Policastro brings adventurous jazz trio to Alphabet City” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 28, 2018: “5 new Pittsburgh restaurants you need to visit soon” – Next Pittsburgh
February 25, 2018: “What to do this week, Feb. 25-March 3” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 23, 2018: “BRUGGE ON NORTH SET TO OPEN IN ALPHABET CITY” – Northside Chronicle
February 22, 2018: “Polish journalist to speak in Pittsburgh about 1940s violence in Poland” – Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
February 22, 2018: “Owners of Point Brugge and Park Bruges to open new restaurant in the North Side” – City Paper
February 22, 2018: “A new Belgian restaurant is opening soon on the North Side” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 22, 2018: “French-American Jazz Exchange in Pittsburgh!” – MidAtlanticArts.org
February 16, 2018: “ToonSeum drawing to a Downtown close; pop-up programming planned” – Trib Live
February 16, 2018: “Toonseum to close downtown location” – Pittsburgh Business Times
February 16, 2018: “Former border-patrol guard Francisco Cantú to visit Pittsburgh to share immigrant stories”- City Paper
February 13, 2018: “‘Pachinko’ author plays on Korean-Japanese divide”- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 12, 2018: “Free closing celebration for Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home” – Next Pittsburgh
February 5, 2018: “Kidsburgh: City of Asylum presents free Let’s Travel the World! series” – Next Pittsburgh
February 4, 2018: “What to do this week, Feb. 4-10” –Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 4, 2018: “Interview: Francisco Cantú” – Littsburgh
January 31, 2018: “Local author Tom Sweterlitsch on his second science-fiction novel — and his Hollywood connections” – City Paper
January 25, 2018: “Pittsburgh things to do this weekend, Jan. 25-28” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 5, 2018: “5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Jan. 5-7” – Trib Live
December 13, 2017: “Slideshow: Meet the first class of Leadership Pittsburgh’s nonprofit fellows” – Pittsburgh Business Times
December 4, 2017: “Humanities Fellows Share Expertise with Cultural and History Organizations” – Pittwire
November 30, 2017: “An asylum for artists: students intern at a sanctuary for exiled writers” – Pitt News
November 29, 2017: “Featured Organization: City of Asylum” – Artists at Risk Connection
November 26, 2017: “What to do this week: Nov. 26-Dec. 2” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 21, 2017: “Word Power” – Rice Magazine
November 15, 2017: “BEST FICTION OF 2017” – Kirkus Reviews
November 10, 2017: “James Street’s closing a blow to Pittsburgh jazz scene, but not a fatal one” – Trib Live
November 8, 2017: “Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to Present Haydn’s THE CREATION Through Modern-Day Lens” – Broadway World
November 3, 2017: “Library Outreach Services: Bridging the Gap” – American Libraries Magazine
November 2, 2017: “Osama Alomar’s The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories” – The Brooklyn Rail
October 30, 2017: “10 Pittsburgh events not to miss in November” – NextPittsburgh
October 13, 2017: “PSO360 puts musicians, audience on stage together” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 6, 2017: “Alphabet City gets an ‘A’” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 2, 2017: “From Steel City to STEM City: Why Smart Millennials Are Making Pittsburgh Home” – Livability
September 20, 2017: “A Conversation with Osama Alomar” – Pittsburgh City Paper
September 19, 2017: “How Pittsburgh Quietly Became a Culture Capital” – Departures
September 15, 2017: “Proud to be from Pittsburgh: Alphabet City” –WPXI
September 14, 2017: “Oliver Lake returns to City of Asylum with Jump Up” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 13, 2017: “Jazz Poetry Month comes to Alphabet City on the North Side” – Pittsburgh City Paper
September 13, 2017: “Fall’s literary offerings, from international poets to local zines” – Pittsburgh City Paper
September 12, 2017: “City of Asylum: Helping persecuted artists in Pittsburgh” – Columns: The University of Washington Alumni Magazine
September 6, 2017: “Jazz Poetry Month features a Charlie Hebdo survivor, a Jump Up reunion, and U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith” – Pittsburgh City Paper
September 5, 2017: “Alphabet City and Symetrix empower exiled creatives” – Get It In Writing
September 3, 2017: “What to do this week: Sept. 3-9” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 30, 2017: “Spotlight: A Global Exchange of Music and Poetry” – Pittsburgh Magazine
August 30, 2017: “City of Asylum moves annual celebration to Alphabet City” – Trib Live
August 20, 2017: “‘The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories’: A touch of Aesop” – Qantara
August 28, 2017: “10 Pittsburgh events not to miss in September” – Next Pittsburgh
August 25, 2017: “Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie brings ‘Home Fire’ to Alphabet City” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August, 17, 2017: “A Syrian author drove a Chicago taxi for nearly a decade. Now, he’s back to writing.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 8, 2017: “4 Questions: Kamila Shamsie” – Littsburgh
August 7, 2017: “Doors Open Pittsburgh invites you to some special places” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
July 31, 2017: “Writing in exile, Syrian author’s tales confront human ‘contradiction, complexity, madness’” – Syria: Direct
July 17, 2017: “Why Collaborative Curating Makes Sense for a Divided Political Era” – ArtNet
July 12, 2017: “Interview: Akhil Sharma” – Littsburgh
July 10, 2017: “How a Syrian Writer Takes on War” – New Republic
July 3, 2017: “The Syrian Exile Who Went from Depressed Cabbie to Celebrated Writer” – Vice
July 1, 2017: “A Literary Thriller Taking on Venezuela” – The Big Thrill
June 28, 2017: “Kunst und Kultur statt Schlote und Stahl” – Berliner Morgenpost
June 17, 2017: “Saturday Poem: Springstroke” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
June 1, 2017: “June events at Alphabet City” – Northside Chronicle
May 24, 2017: “Pittsburgh’s Flicks and Nightlife in June” – Pittsburgh Magazine
May 23, 2017: “Adriana Ramirez wins City of Asylum prize” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
May 19, 2017: “Review: THE TEETH OF THE COMB And Other Stories” – New York Times Book Review
May 17, 2017: “EQT Children’s Theater Festival; the Big Wig Ball; Nigerian writer Unoma Azuah; Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo” – Pittsburgh City Paper
May 15, 2017: “Tuhin Das: Bangladesh Poet, Activist and Writer in Exile” – VOA Student Union
May 15, 2017: “Syria: Stories from the Barrel of a Cannon” – The New York Review of Books
May 12, 2017: “Alphabet City is one of the coolest places in Pittsburgh” – NextPittsburgh
May 11, 2107: “Pittsburgh neighborhood biz districts get national street cred at Main Street Now Conference” – NextPittsburgh
May 9, 2017: “Rhythm and rhyme: local poets host underground readings” – PittNews
May 8, 2017: “No Longer Driving A Cab, A Syrian Writer In America Focuses On His Fiction” – The New Yorker
May 8, 2017: “Q&A with City of Asylum’s Silvia Duarte” – Center for the Art of Translation
May 4, 2017: “Immigrant voices: Fiction by Unnikrishnan, Tharoor, Alomar” – San Francisco Chronicle
April 28, 2017: “Stories Like a Bullet: An Interview with Osama Alomar” – Los Angeles Review of Books
April 24, 2017: “Judith Robinson s Carousel gets proper launch at Alphabet City” – The Jewish Chronicle
April 6, 2017: “Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum seeks help on last push for federal matching funds” – Pittsburgh City Paper
April 6, 2017: “Osama Alomar describes the Syrian conflict one very short story at a time” – Chicago Reader
April 5, 2017: “Trio to celebrate new album with free performance at City of Asylum” – Trib Live
March 30, 2017: “Osama Alomar’s Very Short Stories” – WNYC Studio 360
March 24, 2017: “Wine, Books & Your Next Apartment” – Beaux Arts
March 9, 2017: “The writing is on the wall: Alphabet City is North Side oasis for the arts” – The Jewish Chronicle
March 3, 2017: “Upper St. Clair students hear about author’s experience as refugee” – The Almanac
March 2, 2017: “Osama Alomar’s very short stories” – Chicago Tribune
March 2, 2017: “Writers in exile find welcoming support in Chicago” – Chicago Tribune
March 1, 2017: “Arts groups mobilize to save federal funding ” – Pittsburgh City Paper
February 27, 2017: “Alphabet City bookstore: Newly opened bookstore provides an asylum for works of writers in exile” – Distinction Magazine (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
February 21, 2017: “Inside Pittsburgh’s Asylum City for Exiled Writers” – City Telegraph
February 15, 2017: “NYC’s Casellula Opens on the North Side” – Pittsburgh City Paper
February 13, 2017: “City of Asylum @ Alphabet City opens its doors to the community” – NextPittsburgh
February 9, 2017: “Dust jackets and dog-ears: Pittsburgh’s thriving book scene” – Pitt News
February 1, 2017: “Ralph Henry Reese: Giving Exiled Writers Security and Freedom” – Voice of America
January 26, 2017: “Q&A with Ecuadorian cartoonist, activist Vilma Vargas” – The Northside Chronicle
January 23, 2017: “New citizens remind us of America’s enduring promise” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 23, 2017: “Opening Night: Casellula @ Alphabet City” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 18, 2017: “What Art Under Trump” – The Nation
January 18, 2017: “Casellula the big cheese on the North Side” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 13, 2017: “Nonprofit turns page in PGH’s indie scene with City of Asylum Books” – Pitt News
January 13, 2017: “Grand opening tomorrow for Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum Books” – Pittsburgh City Paper
January 09, 2017: “Some persecuted writers get a new life in the US. But exile isn’t easy.” – Public Radio International (PRI)
September 29th, 2016: “Icelandic writer, Björk collaborator Sjón at Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum Tomorrow” – Pittsburgh City Paper
September 23rd, 2016: “How America became a global cheese power” – Financial Times
September 14th, 2016: “Jazz Poetry concerts hearken back to more intimate years” – Pittsburgh Tribune
September 14th, 2016: “World Saxophone Quartet reuniting for Pittsburgh City of Asylum show” – Pittsburgh City Paper
September 8th, 2016: “Giving shelter: Free speech thrives at City of Asylum’s new venue” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 7th, 2016: “Pittsburgh Nonprofit Shelters—and Celebrates—Exiled Writers” – Nonprofit Quarterly
September 4th, 2016: “City of Asylum: A waystation for writers and their voices” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 4th, 2016: “Former Masonic Hall goes from house of secrets to place of refuge” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 4th, 2016: “At Casellula, the cheese never stands alone” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
September 3rd, 2016: “Alphabet City unites City of Asylum programs” – Pittsburgh Tribune
August 27th, 2016: “12 Pittsburgh events not to miss in September” – Next Pittsburgh
August 15th, 2016: “City of Asylum’s Jazz Poetry Concert Extended for One Month” – Northside Chronicle
August 2nd, 2016: “Alphabet City Grand Opening with Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich!” – Littsburgh
July 10th, 2016: “City of Asylum Expands Safe Haven for Writers” – WPXI-TV
June 19th, 2016: “Co-founder Henry Reese on City of Asylum’s Redevelopment of North Side Building” – KDKA Sunday Business Page
June 13th, 2016: “Free Summer on Sampsonia series heats up Alphabet City Tent” – Next Pittsburgh
May 16th, 2016: “City of Asylum @ Alphabet City opening in September in Masonic Hall” – Next Pittsburgh
May 12, 2016: “City of Asylum grants sneak peek of Alphabet City” – The Northside Chronicle
May 11, 2016: “City of Asylum/Pittsburgh Restaurant, Bookstore, Event Space Set for September” – Pittsburgh City Paper
May 11, 2016: “City of Asylum To Offer Both Arts and A Refuge in Pittsburgh” – CBS Pittsburgh
May 10, 2016: “City of Asylum works on new North Side Headquarters” – Trib Live
May 10, 2016: “Organization That Houses Exiled Writers Finds New Home” – 90.5 WESA
May 10, 2016: “For City of Asylum, new North Side HQ posed financing challenges” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
April 27, 2016: “Cities Have Become the New Laboratories of Success” – Erie Reader
April 21, 2016: “Finding Literary Asylum in Pittsburgh” – NEA
April 12, 2016: “How I Found My Voice in House Poem” – Medium
April 2016: “Open To Thinking: Sheltering the artist at risk” – Windy City Media Group
April 2016: “Pittsburgh Global Press Conference” – KQV
April 2016: “A Conversation with Israeli Writer Assaf Gavron” – KQV
March 28, 2016: “Top Ten Things To Do in Pittsburgh in April” – Pittsburgh Magazine
March 2016: “A Conversation with Vu Tran, a Vietnamese American Writer” – KQV
March 2016: “How America Is Putting Itself Back Together” – The Atlantic
March 21, 2016: “Language as Art in Pittsburgh” – The Atlantic
March 10, 2016: “Pittsburgh: Innovation in the Steel City” – Yahoo News with Katie Couric
February 16, 2016: “City of Asylum: Making a Global and Cultural Impact in Pittsburgh!” – KQV
December 7, 2015: “Walkabout: Masonic Hall project gives hope to blighted N. Side block” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
November 20, 2015: “UNPACKING THE MATRIX 8/10: IMMIGRATION” – ArtPlace America
November 19, 2015: “Homework: City of Asylum offers home tours, wine tastings” – Trib Live
November 18, 2015: “Alphabet City construction update, house tour” – The Northside Chronicle
Jazz Poetry Concert 2015:
September 9. 2015: “Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum festival gives voice to stifled writers” – Trib Live
September 9. 2015: “Lauded pianist and composer Vijay Iyer headlines City of Asylum’s Jazz Poetry Concert” – City Paper
August 29 2015: “Top 12 Pittsburgh Events Not To Miss in September” – Next Pittsburgh
August 25 2015: “City of Asylum/Pittsburgh offers writers in exile sanctuary alongside expansive creative placemaking” – Springboard Exchange
August 2015: “City of Asylum Summer Programs” – KDKA TV
July 15, 2015: 36 Hours in Pittsburgh -“From industrial eyesores to ultramodern lofts, Pittsburgh has no shortage of architectural styles — but only one building is covered by giant poetry written in Chinese calligraphy.” – The New York Times
April 28, 2015: “City of Asylum/Pittsburgh Presents An Economic Dance Lesson” – Pittsburgh Magazine
January 20, 2014: “Trafford writer wins City of Asylum residency in Belgium” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
January 20, 2014: “City of Asylum preparing rebirth of Masonic Hall” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
December 17, 2014: “How Grass-Roots Arts Projects Land Funding” (featuring City of Asylum) – The Wall Street Journal
November 1, 2014: “City of Asylum, a vibrant block of homes that have been rehabilitated and dedicated to providing housing for artists, musicians, and writers from around the world and which have become a cultural magnet for city residents.” – Giada Weekly
October 31, 2014: “In the City of Bridges, an eclectic community embraces writers in exile” – The Atlantic
October 18, 2014:Declared “City of Asylum Pittsburgh Day” by Mayor Bill Peduto
October 17, 2014: City of Asylum featured in The Paris Review Daily morning roundup.
October 17, 2014: City of Asylum featured in Poets&Writers daily roundup.
October 15, 2014: City of Asylum voted among the Best Literary Events in Pittsburgh – City Paper
October 14, 2014: Exiled Voices: City of Asylum Pittsburgh’s 10th anniversary reading
– NEXT Pittsburgh
October 8, 2014: At 10 years, City of Asylum Pittsburgh honors five exiled writers – POP City
September 25, 2015: Updates on Alphabet City®
- New Alphabet City Center by City of Asylum Pittsburgh – City of Asylum
- N.Y. cafe considering location in North Side – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
- URA drops developer for North Side’s Masonic Hall – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- URA drops Philly developer, cities delays on Masonic Temple project – Trib Live
- URA terminates Allegheny City deal on Masonic building – Pittsburgh Business Times
- Pittsburgh authority terminates developer’s rights to restore old Masonic building – The Northside Chronicle
June 2014:Lost/Found at City of Asylum
- “Lively, fun, and moving.” – City Paper
- Prague’s Archa Theatre delves into the Immigrant Experience – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Lost and Found puts stories of immigrants center stage in Pittsburgh – Tribune Review
- Ovace ve stoje pro pražské Divadlo Archa v Pittsburghu – Blesk
June 13, 2014: Visa process proves to be a daunting challenge – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
July – August 2014:Digital Sanctuaries
- City of Asylum app shines light on North Side – Tribune Review
- Digital Sanctuaries invites listeners on an urban interlude through the Northside – NEXT Pittsburgh
- Exploring Sonic Sanctuaries on the North Side – Essential Pittsburgh, WESA
- Walks and Readings Around Pittsburgh Feature Iraqi, Syrian Poems – Arab Literature
July 3, 2014: Independence Day has different meaning for immigrants, veterans – Tribune-Review
June – July 2014:River of Words
- River of Words Connects Communities and Brains – Tribune-Review
- Words, art, and homes merge in appealing display on Northside – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Colectivo de arte venezolano ganó concurso de Arte Público en Pittsburgh – El Universal
- Pop Filter Hot Pick: River of Words inaugurates City of Asylum’s Garden-to-Garden Artway – POP City
- A River of Words Engulfs the Northside – NEXT Pittsburgh
- Proyecto “Río de palabras” del colectivo venezolano: Arnal-Romero-Centeno – ArtNexus
- A River of Words will flow through the Northside – WESA
April 30, 2014: Point Park University’s City of Asylum animation projects are live!
Watch: A Sea of Words
Watch: Wild Beast
April 29, 2014: City of Asylum co-founders Henry Reese and Diane Samuels are interviewed for Late Night Library.
March 19, 2014: City of Asylum co-founder Henry Reese to speak at Point Park University symposium – Point Park Globe
March 3, 2014: Oppression prompted writer to leave Iran – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Feb. 26, 2014: Talented Point Park students are putting their art to work for City of Asylum – Point Park Globe
Feb. 11, 2014: Woman of Courage to speak in Pittsburgh – 90.5 FM WESA
Feb. 3, 2014: COAP cited as model for revitalized City of Asylum Las Vegas – News 3
Jan. 11, 2014: Cave Canem to offer workshops at City of Asylum – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jan. 10, 2014: Proud to Be from Pittsburgh: Channel 11 anchor Peggy Finnegan visits City of Asylum and interviews writer Yaghoub Yadali and Henry Reese – WPXI
Jan. 9, 2014: NEA Grants Awarded to local Arts Organizations – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jan. 8, 2014: Writing in NatGeo Traveller, Dipti Nair profiles Pittsburgh and City of Asylum.
Jan. 5, 2014: Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum a Bastion for Persecuted Writers. – Pitt News
Jan. 2, 2014: English PhD candidate Katie Brown on visiting Israel Centeno at City of Asylum – Katie Brown on Culture
Jan. 2, 2014: City of Asylum receives grant for annual concert – Northside Chronicle
Dec. 19, 2013: City of Asylum: breaking Down Barriers – 90.5 WESA’s “Essential Pittsburgh”
Dec. 17, 2013: City of Asylum’s NEA “Art Works” Grant
- Pittsburgh community for exiled artists receives grant – 90.5 WESA
- City of Asylum is slated to receive a $20,000 NEA grant – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Dec. 13, 2013: New Developments at Federal-North Project, site of Alphabet City –
Pittsburgh Business Times
Dec. 12, 1013: Portions of Garden Theater block on North Side could open to new developers – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sept. 17, 2013: Cuban Newrrative (SampsoniaWay.org) – Martí
Sept. 18, 2013:Diario de Cuba
Sept. 7, 2013: Latin Times
October 30, 2013: How Public Art is Changing the Urban Landscape – POP City
August 6, 2013: Cities Turn to Creative Placemaking – BMoreMedia online
August 1, 2013: City of Asylum wins NEA Our Town Grant – Northside Chronicle
August 2013:Sampsonia Way editor Silvia Duarte pictured next to House Poem at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh Magazine
July 18, 2013: City of Asylum Earns NEA Grant – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
July 10, 2013: Jeffrey Brown profiles poet and activist Liao Yiwu. Interview conducted at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s Exiled Voices of China and Tibet – PBS NewsHour
July 2013: Freedom to Speak: An interview with Sampsonia Way Managing Editor Silvia Duarte – Vela
June 26, 2013: City of Asylum/Pittsburgh awarded $250,000 for North Side project – Pittsburgh Business Times
June 27, 2013: Art from the Ground Up: City of Asylum/Pittsburgh Firmly Rooted in Its North Side Neighborhood – 90.5 WESA
June 27, 2013:Northside Chronicle
June 11, 2013: Huang Xiang at Exiled Voices of China and Tibet – World Journal
June 9, 2013: Chinese dissidents in exile share experiences in North Side forum – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
June 7, 2013: Pittsburgh group hosts a rare gathering of exiled Chinese political dissidents – City Paper
June 1, 2013: Insider’s Guide to Pittsburgh – The Wall Street Journal
June 2013: Jose Muniain’s “Bridging the Arts” Video on City of Asylum, shown at the Americans for the Arts Convention.
May 22, 2013: The Arts Engine: Christine O’Toole talks about the arts in Pittsburgh, including plans for Alphabet City – Pittsburgh Today
June 9, 2013: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
May 20, 2013: Coverage of ArtPlace America Grant to City of Asylum – Pop City
May 22, 2013: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
May 27, 2013: WESA 90.5
May 30, 2013:Northside Chronicle
May 6, 2013: Coverage of AfricAméricas at City of Asylum
- ‘AfricAméricas’: Week of activities in Pittsburgh about race – Diario de Cuba
- Six-day event in Pittsburgh targets discrimination in Cuba – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- To Do This Week – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Three opposition academics invited by U.S. universities – Diario de Cuba
March 18, 2013: Coverage of Alphabet City announcement
- City of Asylum venue to anchor Garden Theatre block – Pittsburgh City Paper
- City of Asylum’s literary center to open on North Side; shifting from previous site on Monterey, Alphabet City will anchor the Garden Theater Block development – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Bookstore, more planned for area near Garden Theater – Trib Live
- City of Asylum/Pittsburgh to open Literary Center in Northside’s Garden Theater Block – POP City
- France: City of Asylum Pittsburgh decided to establish a center for the literary life with both local objectives, but also international. The association is particularly helpful to authors persecuted in their country of origin. It will install its facilities in the district of North Side of the American city. – Actualitte
- City of Asylum Opening Literary Center in Pittsburgh – Hawthorne Books
March 6, 2013: Ten Questions for Israel Centeno – Venezuelan Literature
January 13, 2013: Andrew Moore talks with Henry Reese about City of Asylum’s literary center and more – POP City
2012: “Give Me Shelter” by Aviya Kushner details City of Asylum and other “fascinating, quirky, and deeply American effort(s) to help international refugee writers make new writing lives in the United States.” – Gulf Coast Magazine
June 20, 2012: Fearless Ink: 8 writers in 7 countries, all confronting free speech restrictions in Sampsonia Way Magazine – POP City
October 25, 2011: Diana Nelson Jones reports on City of Asylum’s “Sister Cities” exchange with Het Beschrijf in Belgium, which took Pittburgh poet Terrance Hayes to Brussels and brought Belgian writer Paul Mennes to Pittsburgh for two months. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sept. 30, 2010: Jeffrey Brown’s feature on City of Asylum; interviews with then-Writer-in-Residence Khet Mar, Huang Xiang and Horacio Castellanos Moya, as well as City of Asylum’s co-founder and President, Henry Reese. – PBS NewsHour
Sept. 6, 2011: Coverage of the 2011 City of Asylum Jazz-Poetry Concert – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
June 2011: Coverage of Cave Canem Poets at City of Asylum – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 2011: “Creative, quirky and caring, Pittsburgh’s Sampsonia Way is also the international Main Street for the City of Asylum program for writers, making sure the pen stays mightier than the sword.” – Pittsburgh Magazine
March 2011: Profile: City of Asylum Exiled writer-in-residence (Myanmar) Khet Mar –Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Dec. 8, 2009: George Packer’s observations on City of Asylum – The New Yorker
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- June 1, 2013: Pittsburgh Post Gazette – The Next Page / Pittsburgh and Jamshedpur: Steel cities, a world apart
Awarded a Fulbright grant to study the steel cities of Pittsburgh and his native Jamshedpur, India, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh visiting international writer-in-residence Vijay Nair found many similarities. Little wonder, he says, that he feels at home here.
- June 1, 2013: Pittsburgh Post Gazette – The Next Page / Pittsburgh and Jamshedpur: Steel cities, a world apart
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- The Utne Reader
An article by Claudia Méndez Arriaza, a reporter for elPeriódico de Guatemala and the recipient of a 2012 fellowship to study the politics of emerging democracies at Harvard, first published by Sampsonia Way (Sept. 2011), excerpted on The Utne Reader.
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- American Public Media: Weekend America – Bringing Poetry Home
Home is a subject poets have been scribbling about in stanzas since the days of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey.”…Poets put their own spin on the topic at City of Asylum Pittsburgh’s annual jazz and poetry reading. Two of those poets come from very different places: Liberian-born Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, and native South Carolinian Terrance Hayes. – by Larissa Anderson, aired Nov. 29, 2008.
- American Public Media: Weekend America – Bringing Poetry Home
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- Radio Free Asia
A profile of exiled Chinese poet, City of Asylum’s first writer-in-residence Huang Xiang, published Dec. 13, 2004.
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- PBS POV: Well-Founded Fear
Well-Founded Fear documents a variety of dramas unfolding in INS offices in the New York City area. The filmmakers focus on both the pleas of immigrants to stay in the United States, and the consideration of their cases by INS officers. At issue in every case are the requirements of asylum. To be granted, applicants must demonstrate a “well-founded fear” of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Huang Xiang’s case is included among those explored in the film, and he appears in it. Original air-date: June 5, 2000.
- PBS POV: Well-Founded Fear
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