Courtesy of the SARAS InstituteLast month I had the marvelous opportunity, as a poet, of participating in the annual conference of an international scientific organization, the South American Institut…
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May 27, 2015The following interview took place before a large audience at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival on January 24, 2014.Photo © Nancy CramptonChard deNiord: I’d like to begin with t…
May 11, 2015Poets attending the 2015 Festival Internacional de Poesía in Granada, Nicaragua. Photo: Arnulfo AgüeroIn her spellbinding The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War (2002), Gioconda…
April 2, 2015The 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 Oklahom…
March 30, 2015Tomas 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 Stoc…
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