Denise Duong is a Vietnamese American artist whose artwork appears on the cover of the Autumn 2021 issue of World Literature Today. Her paintings, drawings, and murals tell st…

Bury Me tell me            wet limestone            flinching coral reefs  what’s it like to alwaysbe night                                      tell me  what is it to be rooted in shadow           …

The executive director, editors, and staff at World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma are saddened to hear of Astrid Ivask’s death.  In her time at the University of Oklahoma in…

Tomas Tranströmer delivering his acceptance speech for the Neustadt Prize in June 1990. When news broke late last week that Nobel Prize laureate Tomas Tranströmer had died in St…

News, Reviews, and Interviews French novelist Patrick Modiano has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature.  Last week, Laila Lalami spoke to NPR about her new novel, The Moor’s…

Oklahoma writer Dorothy Alexander remembers fellow poet Jim Spurr, a true “everyman poet.” Jim Spurr left this earthy existence on Sunday, August 31, 2014, after having one of the best days o…

Ben Myers and his newest book Lapse Americana April means tax stresses and spring, whether for you spring involves heavy snowfall or seasonal allergies. But in the U.S. April is also nationa…