The March/April 2012 issue of World Literature Today will feature the work of New York Times Beirut bureau chief Anthony Shadid (1968-2012). In this issue, …
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- December 6, 2018Poet Nathalie Handal has collaborated with New York-based filmmaker Bob Madey to create a video version of her poem "The Courtyard of Colegiata del Salvador," found in the January 2012 issue of Wo…
- August 1, 2011Pia Tafdrup is one of the major contemporary Danish poets working today, and her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the author of more than twenty books, several of w…
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