Courtesy of the SARAS Institute Last month I had the marvelous opportunity, as a poet, of participating in the annual conference of an international scientific organization, the South American Instit…

The following interview took place before a large audience at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival on January 24, 2014. Photo © Nancy Crampton Chard deNiord: I’d like to begin wit…

Poets 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…

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…