City of Asylum
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City of Asylum (more formally City of Asylum/Pittsburgh) is a nonprofit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that houses writers exiled from their countries for their controversial writing. It provides them with free housing, health care and access to social services and resettlement in the United States. Their expanded mission involves the venue, Sampsonia Way magazine, and organizing Jazz Poetry Month in Pittsburgh.
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City of Asylum
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City of Asylum
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City of Asylum
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Alphabet City - City of Asylum's headquarters
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2004
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R. Henry Reese, Diane Samuels
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Andrés Franco
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Executive Director
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City of Asylum Logo.svg
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City of Asylum written in various languages serves as the organizations logo.
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City of Asylum's logo.
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Location within Pittsburgh, PA
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To provide sanctuary to endangered literary writers.
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Non-profit
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City of Asylum (more formally City of Asylum/Pittsburgh) is a nonprofit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that houses writers exiled from their countries for their controversial writing. It provides them with free housing, health care and access to social services and resettlement in the United States. Their expanded mission involves the venue, Sampsonia Way magazine, and organizing Jazz Poetry Month in Pittsburgh. Henry Reese and Diane Samuels founded Pittsburgh's City of Asylum in 2004. The organization has a community-based model, with the hopes of integrating the exiled writers into the United States. Exiled writers accepted to the program are granted up to four years of housing. It also gives financial and medical support for their families for two years, giving them ample time and means to adjust to life in the United States. In November 2016, it became the US headquarters for the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN). It was also described as a “model for the world.” City of Asylum hosts more than 175 cultural and literary events every year which are free to the public. In 2017, the organization would repurpose an old masonic lodge into their main headquarters called Alphabet City.
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To provide sanctuary to endangered literary writers.
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