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Poetry
April 20, 2016
April 18, 2016Courtesy 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…
April 13, 2016Like most immigrant kids, John Guzlowski never wanted to write about his Polish parents and the world they left when they came to America. They had been slave laborers during World War II, while he, b…
April 5, 2016Westpark, “parkverbot,” 2009Alice Sant’Anna (b. 1988) is a prize-winning critically and internationally acclaimed poet from Rio de Janeiro who follows in the path of Brazil’s “marginal generation” poe…
April 1, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The AWP Conference continues through this weekend! Catch WLT’s editor in chief this afternoon and evening, and be sure to attend our poetry reading “Crossin…
March 23, 2016Alex Ringer, “Thistle-Garden (Cynara syriaca f. alba),” Jezreel Valley, IsraelIntroductory note by translator Rachel Tzvia BackTuvia Ruebner was born in Slovakia i…
March 15, 2016vk-red, “Somewhere over the rain with no bow,” 2015Fuchsia Branch in the Windby Judita VaičiūnaitėI block the sea’s wind from the branch.My black umbrella shelters it from rain.Its blossom’s…
February 17, 2016Stone faces in Cambodia. Photo by Tammy Ho. In the second installment of “Asian Traumatic Poetics” (to read part 1, click here), I will look at two more poems published in Cha that discuss…
February 12, 2016Valzhyna Mort. Photo: Tyler ChristianNews, Reviews, and Interviews In this radio interview with OU’s NPR affiliate, recent Neustadt juror Valzhyna Mort details her passion for poetry and the powe…
February 10, 2016Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009. In this post and one that will follow next week, I will explore the representation of personal trauma in…- January 15, 2016News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Academy of American Poets has curated this list of poems in honor and celebration.Poet Allison Hedge Coke, recently publ…
January 6, 2016A girl waves the Egyptian national flag as thousands of demonstrators participate in antigovernment protests, February 8, 2011. Photo: Felipe Trueba / EPA / Thinking Images v.9afterwards…
November 30, 2015Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli. Photo by Neil Weightman.“Whoever is uprooted, uproots others.” Simone Weil’s wise words to Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, in 1943, with France still u…
November 17, 2015The image is central to most poets and poetry. In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish,” the image is the poem. “His brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper, / and its pattern of dark…
October 12, 2015Participants at the first South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival I have just returned from an extraordinary journey into the Republic of Poetry. The occasion was the first South Asian Diaspora Poet…
October 2, 2015Jenny Erpenbeck is shortlisted for the 2015 German Book Prize.News, Reviews, and Interviews Young-adult books are often challenged. This article from the Los Angeles Times lists the 10 m…
September 29, 2015Left: Rocío Cerón, photo by Francisco Cañedo. Right: Anna Rosenwong, photo by Jesse Chan Norris.Anna Rosenwong’s translation of Rocío Cerón’s Diorama won the 20…- September 25, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2015 National Book Awards longlist is out, and Flavorwire has compiled a post that summarizes each of the books. A recent article from the New York Times…
September 23, 2015Roberto Fernández Retamar in 2015,illustration by Michael Hoeweler.This started out as a book review of Roberto Fernández Retamar’s Poesía nueva reunida (Letras Cubanas and Ediciones Unión, 2…- September 18, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn this new video interview, United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera converses about poetry and the poet’s role in American culture today. The Man Booker Priz…
September 11, 2015Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by Christine Zenino/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews The Reykjavik International Literary Festival continues this weekend and features authors recently featured or re…
September 9, 2015Guillermo Arreola, Ni tú escaparás (2005), mixed media on canvas, 90 x 80cm. Courtesy of the artist.Durability of Materials …- August 28, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe new issue of Poetry International is now available. The double issue features poems by current Neustadt nominee Carolyn Forché; Neustadt laureates Tomas Tranströmer an…
August 21, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams.News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on in…
August 12, 2015史国瑞 (Shi Guorui), “Shanghai,” 15–16 October 2004, unique camera obscura, gelatin silver print,129 x 440 cm. By permission of the photographer. In this YouTube video, he discusses the gen…
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