From Kosovo to Berkeley
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This episode focuses on the poetry series ’Kosovo Fugue in Seven Parts’ written between April 7 and April 29 1999 by American poet, activist, educator and architect June Jordan. In these poems Jordan weaves together the events of the war in Kosovo, her personal moments in Brooklyn and the protests of the Third World Liberation Front Students at U.C. Berkeley in California. For this episode Arnisa Zeqo invited artist Selma Selman for a reading of the poems and a small discussion. Visit Arnisa Zeqo on Dutch Art Institute: https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/7761/arnisa-zeqo Visit Selma Selman’s Website: https://www.selmanselma.com/
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