Passport, by Antoine Cassar - reading with Matt Gonzalez, San Francisco Int. Poetry Festival 2012
Channel: Antoine Cassar
Date: 2012-08-10

Introduction and reading of first half of "Passport", by Antoine Cassar
read by the author in the original Maltese, accompanied by Matt Gonzalez in English

San Francisco International Poetry Festival
27th July 2012

English adaptation by Albert Gatt & the author

Reading dedicated to Iraqi poet Sabah Jasim, who missed a previous edition of the SF International Poetry Festival due to a late awarding of the visa; to Colombian activist Fernando Rendón, who missed the 2012 festival for similar reasons; and to any members of the audience who ever had trouble crossing a border.

Profits from the sale of the Passport booklet in the US are donated to the East Bay Sanctuary Convenant, an NGO based in Berkeley that provides legal assistance to asylum seekers in the SF Bay area (in particular, indigenous Guatemalans, LGBTs, victims of domestic or state violence, and Tibetan monks) -- http://eastbaysanctuary.org

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