Rasha Abbas and her English translator Alice Guthrie read original stories and nonfiction from Syria. The reading is accompanied by the Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble, with a program of all Syrian music, featuring master oud player Kinan Idnawi.
In this video blog, Massachusetts Review editor and translator Jim Hicks reads selections from the English translation of Erri De Luca's A Dissenting Word. De Luca is currently being tried in Italy for expressing -- during an interview on the Italian site of the Huffington Post -- his solidarity with the Susa Valley's NO TAV activists, a resistance group that opposes the construction of a high-speed train line between Lyon and Torino. If convicted, De Luca could be sent to prison for up to five years.
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The Massachusetts Review helped celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UMass MFA for Poets and Writers! Many of our interns, editors, and contributors are graduates of the program, and shared their work at an event reading recognizing the MFA's golden anniversary.
National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Mira Bartok reading selections from MR's Spring 2014 issue.
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