Čuvaj Se’s Dr. Tom Simpson is facilitating a summer seminar with Bosnian youth activists to discuss Black Lives Matter, Anti-Racism, and grassroots activism in Bosnia-Herzegovina. For the… Read more “2020 ČUVAJ SE SUMMER SEMINARS”
Author: Heathen
Heathen is a Poet and the author of The Bride Minaret (University of Akron Press, 2008), Each End of the World (Main Street Rag Press, 2005). and Tongue Screw (Spark Wheel Press. 2016). Her fourth collection, Thrust, winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and was published at Persea Books in 2017. They are a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop ('94) where they studied with James Galvin, Jorie Graham, Marvin Bell and Mark Doty. Heathen is the Founder and Executive Director of Cuvaj se/Take Care a nonprofit supporting writers in conflict zones and post-conflict recovery zones. Heathen's fifth book, Ouskirts, is forthcoming from University of Akron Press in March 2022.
Tom Simpson, updates from the field(s)
Recently Tom has partnered with Bosnian filmmakers Emir Kapetanović and Zana Marjanović, editing the English subtitles for their new documentary The Change We Seek, which features ten youth… Read more “Tom Simpson, updates from the field(s)”
Looking Ahead in 2020
2019 was an incredible year for us, with teaching in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Japan, research and study in Czech Republic and Iceland, translation projects with film-makers and poets… Read more “Looking Ahead in 2020”
Studying in Iceland
This is Heather Derr-Smith in Iceland for the New Years. Fireworks have been popping and exploding outside my window for the last 72 hours! Icelanders are really… Read more “Studying in Iceland”
Sarajevo
Sarajevo is the birthplace, heart, and spirit of everything we do at Čuvaj Se. Our mission began there in a city under siege, whose citizens refused to… Read more “Sarajevo”