by Carmela Cruz, John Feffer | Aug 17, 2007 | Human Rights
Babaeng Nakaitim (Woman in Black) by Emmanuel Garibay. Gabriela Krista Dalena sits on a painter’s stool, narrating a harrowing incident from a night in April 2003. A ray of late morning sunlight comes through the parted doors of the verandah across her. It...
by John Feffer, E. Ethelbert Miller | Jul 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
David Mura is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, critic, playwright, and performance artist. A Sansei or third-generation Japanese American, Mura has written two memoirs: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei (Grove-Atlantic), which won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book...
by John Feffer, Kyi May Kaung | Jul 11, 2007 | Human Rights
Burma has become a favorite choice of novelists looking for an exotic locale with a hint of danger. Daniel Mason’s The Piano Tuner is set in the colonial period in Burma. A ghost, who accompanies a tour of Burma, narrates Amy Tan’s Saving Fish from...
by John Feffer, Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi | Jun 12, 2007 | Women
ISN’T IT ENOUGH? I gave up love being satisfied with the quiet of shadows And memories. Time was past, lost, moments exploded by the rain of bombs. At nightfallI don’t brush my dreams any more. At nightfall I don’t care for the wandering sun any...
by John Feffer, Melissa Tuckey | Jun 12, 2007 | Women
Farideh Hassanzadeh (Mostafavi) is an Iranian poet, translator, and freelance journalist. Her first book of poetry was published when she was 22 years old. Her poems appear in the anthologies Contemporary Women Poets of Iran and Anthology of Best Women Poets. She...
