Ernesto Cardenal in Santiago, Chile, 2009 / Photo by Roman Bonnefoy
Editorial note: The editors of WLT were saddened to hear that Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal passed away on Mar…
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May 11, 2015Poets attending the 2015 Festival Internacional de Poesía in Granada, Nicaragua. Photo: Arnulfo Agüero In her spellbinding The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War (2002), Giocond…
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In the Beginning the Word
worldlittoday · In The Beginning The Word by Rachel Tzvia Back
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the word was
unverbed unruled just birthed
before bird…
Background photo by Sved Oliver / Adobe StockA Visitor from Hell
A resident of Hell, I’ve been sitting here,
Lord,
for years.
Do I not deserve
to be…
Courtesy of University of New Mexico Press / Stock.adobe.comThe Orphan (Isaac Luria)
what is the matter? why do you
always pursue me as an enemy?/…
Yassini Girls (Beacon Books, 2024), the new novel by Shereen Malherbe, invites readers into a rich and emotional narrative, weaving together…
