Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas (Graywolf, 2017), a poetry finalist for the 2017 National Book Awards, contends with the U.S. federal terminologies in relationship to Indigenous people and reins…
Indigenous Literatures
October 9, 2017- August 22, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsAfter years of civil war and conflict, Afghan refugees are beginning to return home and bring with them waves of migrant literature.The 2014 PEN/Heim Fund…
- July 24, 2014Celebrating the First 10 Years of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literaturefeaturing contributions from all six laureates and a retrospect…
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WLT’s executive director, editors, and staff all deeply mourn the passing of David L. Boren, who died on February 20, 2025. Nick Hathaway, who…
. . . I sleep early, risebefore daylight, waitwith patient stuporthe coming gray light. . . I move slowly,surreptitiously — ananimal hungry to find…
Mariana Sabino’s debut short-story collection, The Verdigris Stories, transports readers to many different countries. This collection of loosely…
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Boat and ReactionYou were cooking in a dim sum restaurant it worried meIn dreams we react so strangelySometimes only…
Since the moment we became readers, we have always thought that to interpret the most profound ideas of a literary work—from the multiple creations…
