We are pleased to officially present the WLT shortlist of Pushcart Prize nominations for 2012. The Pushcart Prize annually honors the best poetry, short fiction, or essays published in small…
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How do we look to her when she halts outside the window—paws spread, ears alert, tail stiff with hair in all…
World Literature Today’s director, RC Davis-Undiano, has written a play that is soon to be performed on the University of Oklahoma campus.…
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Nigerian journalist Mashood Ọlábísí Àjàlá (1934–1999), whose name became synonymous with the word “…
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Regarded as one of the most original voices of the new Latin American poetry, Mario Meléndez (b. 1971…