David Rigsbee / Photo by CompRhetGirl17 (own work, public domain)
The first reason to read David Rigsbee’s Watchman in the Knife Factory: New and Selected Poems (Black La…
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March 5, 2026The week of March 23–27, Daniel Simon will do a series of East Coast events to promote A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature (Restless Books, 2026), his edited antholo… -
March 3, 2026In November 2025 I met poet and translator Yuki Tanaka at his Hosei University office in Tokyo, where he has been teaching poetry and creative writing in the English literature department since 2019.… -
March 2, 2026On February 20, the University of Oklahoma’s Department of English, the Gibbs College of Architecture, the Schusterman Center for Judaic & Israel Studies, and WLT co-sponsored the Okl… -
February 27, 2026On February 26, the American Society of Magazine Editors announced its list of finalists for the sixty-first annual National Magazine Awards and included World Literature Today’s July 20… -
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze / Photo courtesy the Library of Congress / loc.gov On December 11, 2025, Arthur Sze delivered his inaugural reading as the twenty-fifth Poet Laureate of th… -
Photo by garrettt / Stock.adobe.com We’re disembodied: Aurora, my mother of northern light, and I,echoing through our landlines in the western hemisphere. Shemuffles over the bruised-peach…