Kyi May Kaung

A poem: To all the men and women who sing change change change Mee-ahn mar–we never heard of you before.

The dissident, like the plant, does not kowtow to the sky.

A poem about Hillary Clinton’s visit to see Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.

The generals of Burma’s ruling junta have set aside their uniforms, but they still resemble a military dictatorship.

A poem about genocide read in front of the Burmese embassy on the Poetry Walk of Shame.

U Win Tin spent 19 years in Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison. The chief strategist of the National League for Democracy managed to keep organizing even behind bars.

The Vietnamese-born artist Huong has created an immense mural that depicts the horror of war and the imperative of peace.

Kyi May Kaung looks at the religious roots of the protest movement in Burma today.

Novels about Burma are all the rage. Kyi May Kaung discusses the Burmese novels that you haven’t read yet.

Kaung and Steinberg rebut each other’s arguments.