by John Feffer, Ellen O'Grady | Nov 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
Activist artist Ellen O’Grady visits Hebron, the only Palestinian city outside East Jerusalem where Israeli settlers occupy the city center. I am on my way to Hani Abu Haikel’s house. If I don’t run into any settlers or soldiers it should be a...
by John Feffer, E. Ethelbert Miller | Oct 16, 2007 | Uncategorized
Photo by Nancy Crampton. The noted Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat has recently published a memoir of her family, Brother, I’m Dying. When her parents went to New York to find work, the young Edwidge remained in Haiti with her brother, her aunt, and...
by John Feffer, Debayani Kar | Sep 21, 2007 | War & Peace
The future has arrived, but the Futurists didn’t make it. In the early part of the 20th century, the Futurist movement of artists in Italy, led by Filippo Marinetti, glorified war as a dynamic organizing principle for their art work. If art was about energy – and the...
by John Feffer, E. Ethelbert Miller | Sep 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
Anya Achtenberg is an award-winning poet and novelist. Her latest novel, History Artist, grapples with recent Cambodian history. FPIF’s E. Ethelbert Miller talks to her about fighting against social amnesia and the challenge of inhabiting the lives of others in...
by John Feffer, Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi | Aug 17, 2007 | War & Peace
The poet Samuel Hazo, at his installation as the first state poet of Pennsylvania in 1993, declared that “we should learn to listen to our poets here and now — and not wait for history to confer on them their already earned validity.” Poets like...
