Charles Simic: Why You Should Be an Immigrant, For the Sake of Your Writing Career
Refugee Poet
Want an interesting life to write about? In the foreword to the new collection American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans—which features works by Daniel Alarcón, Dinaw Mengestu, Téa Obreht, and Yiyun Li, among others—former poet laureate Charles Simic argues that since refugees never fit in to their new countries, they channel their perpetual turmoil into literary richness.
