Yatika Fields (Osage, Cherokee, Creek), White Buffalo Calf Woman March, oil on canvas, 2017, Hood Museum collection
for my always engaged father, who passed at the VA in Norman, Oklahoma…
COVER FEATURE
Literary Activism
Guest Editor - Allison Hedge Coke
Featuring
Simon Ortiz
Tommy Orange
Dean Chavers
Emily Rapp Black
Nancy Morejón
Duane Niatum
Craig Santos Perez
Vickie Vértiz
Wang Ping
Susan Straight
Mikeas Sánchez
Lindantonella Solano Mendoza
Reyna Grande
Luis J. Rodriguez
Mohja Kahf
Barbara Jane Reyes
Miguel M. Morales
Jan Beatty
Ashanti Anderson
Sandra Alcosser
Brenda Hillman
Jake Skeets
Pagination
Autumn 2019
World Literature Today’s autumn issue celebrates U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo with poems and an interview inside, and the cover feature devoted to Literary Activism commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Alcatraz occupation that began in November 1969, guest-edited by Allison Hedge Coke. As always, a generous selection of book reviews and other features round out the issue.
Table of Contents
In Every Issue
City Profile
Madrid’s Bold and Fearless Art
Translator’s Note
Translating Women’s Stories out of Oblivion
What to Read Now
Borders
Lit Trends
Favorite 2019 Book Covers (So Far)
International Crime & Mystery
The First Twenty Years of the Twenty-First Century: Ten Reading Suggestions and a Farewell
Editor’s Pick
The Wild Boy by Paolo Cognetti
by Rob Vollmar
Outpost
Cafe Ohlone, Berkeley
by Ella Parsons
ESSAYS
PUTERBAUGH ESSAY SERIES
Not One Less
by Igiaba Scego
Fiction
PREMIUM
Is the Horse Oppressed?
Literary Activism
ESSAY
An Active Measure
POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
We Shall Endure: A Poem
by Dean Chavers
ESSAY
Storytelling as Activism
POETRY
Those Who Are Leaving
by Duane Niatum
POETRY PREMIUM
Family Trees
POETRY
Do you know what time it is?
POETRY
Pity the Nation
by Wang Ping
ESSAY
Exodus, Labor, Love
AUDIO POETRY
We Are Millions
POETRY
Two Wayuu Poems
by Jan Beatty
POETRY
If
ESSAY
Poetry as Field
by Jake Skeets
INTERVIEW WEB EXCLUSIVE
Imagining a More “Tender Country”: A Conversation with Craig Santos Perez
by Emily Vizzo
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