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November 26, 2024In the Beginning the Word worldlittoday · In The Beginning The Word by Rachel Tzvia Back 1 the word was unverbed unruled just birthed before bird on the altar or binding at hilltop not taken or gi… -
March 29, 2024Sandhill cranes displaying and dancing at dawn / Photo by Brian Lasenby / Adobe Stock Since 2011, WLT has built up a Soundcloud archive of more than two hundred recordings con… -
August 9, 2023Photo by Nicolas Winkler / Flickr To celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 9, I invited fifteen Indigenous-minority poets from China to record t… -
September 8, 2020Photo by Kawan Nahaee Both a poet and novelist in Kurdish and Persian, Kawan Nahaee has a significant audience on social media, where the poems he posts often engage wit…
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