Aster(ix) Newsletter | January 2017

    Dear Aster(ix) Readers, In 2003, visual artist Regina José Galindo walked from the…

Two Poems

  Oops!   Careful we have to be : Opening the door , Getting our…

Writing Ambition: Irina Reyn on Portraying Unsatisfied Women

Irina Reyn came to Alphabet City to read from The Imperial Wife as part of…

The Writer’s Block Transcripts: A Q&A with Aurora Arias and Achy Obejas

Sampsonia Way interviewed Aurora Arias and Achy Obejas about how inhabiting two different countries can…

Literature as Conversation: A Q&A with Idra Novey

Idra Novey came to read at City of Asylum on October 20, 2016 as part…

Missing America: On Leonard Cohen

In the summer of 1991, I took a long bus ride from Kaniv in the…

Two Drawings In Response to Viramontes’ Novel, Cemetery Boys.

While listening to Helena Maria Viramontes read from her book, Cemetery Boys at Alphabet City/City of Asylum…

Call Me Soft

On a warm August night in Brussels, a curator, Orient, of feminist inclination, dressed up…

Microeditorial: for the black girls

  for the black girls whose lives don’t look good on paper, for those with…

What We Love – A conversation between Angie Cruz, Madhu H. Kaza and M.L. Vargas

Madhu H. Kaza: When I think of the idea behind “What We Love” I think…