Frankétienne is a writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual recognized as one of Haiti’s leading writers and playwrights of both French and Hatian Creole. This workshop will be led by Andre Naffis-Sahely who is a poet, critic and literary translator.

Prize-winning Moroccan poet, Abdellatif Laâbi was joined by his translator, André Naffis-Sahely, for a reading from his newly published chapbook of poems and to launch his memoir, The Bottom of the Jar.

Leading Moroccan poet, Abdellatif Laâbi, winner of the Prix Goncourt, received a warm welcome on a very cold night at the launch of his new chapbook of poems, translated by André Naffis-Sahely.

For the first in our new series of workshops we translated two new poems by the leading Moroccan poet, Abdellatif Laâbi with the help of André Naffis-Sahely

André Naffis-Sahely joined us for a workshop on the remarkable Eritrean poet, Ribka Sibhatu, who writes in Italian, in which we translated a lyric about childbirth and a new, very witty, prose poem.

André Naffis-Sahely joined us for another workshop on the remarkable poetry of Abdellatif Laâbi, Morocco’s leading poet, who writes in French.

André Naffis-Sahely joined us for a workshop on French poetry from Haiti by the famous poet, novelist, painter and playwright, Franketienne.

For the first in our new series of workshops, André Naffis-Sahely introduced us to the poetry of the great Moroccan poet, Abdellatif Laâbi, who writes in French.

The poet and translator André Naffis-Sahely joined us for a second workshop on the poetry of Ribka Sibhatu from Eritrea who writes in Italian.

Poet and translator, André Naffis-Sahely, joined us for a workshop on poetry written in Italian by Ribka Sibhatu from Eritrea.