Usha Akella’s poetry is known for an undertone of spirituality within a contemporary voice. Here she discusses the impact of travel on her work, poetry as a verb, and the distance between…
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July 17, 2017
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…
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…- June 19, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsIsraeli writer Etgar Keret was interviewed recently on NPR. Keret discussed how he learned storytelling and survival from his father who survived the Holocaust.Jo…
- June 12, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsJuan Felipe Herrera was appointed the poet laureate of the United States this week. Herrera is the first Latino poet to receive this honor. Herrera also s…
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…
January 28, 2015View of Stockholm, Sweden, from the Södermalm district. Photo by J. A. Alcaide.In a corner of Stockholm, the Argentinean father of someone who was once, briefly, my lover, stumbles against the gr…
May 8, 2014I land in Los Angeles and meet up with Mandy Kahn and David Shook, who’ve just returned from a week in Seattle, armed with a box of poetry from AWP. After Mandy drops us off, David and I grab a quick…
October 2, 2013Photo by Antonio Olmedo/Flickr“Johannesburg is referred to as the ‘great city’; this is judged by South African standards. Its population is about 700,000, but it is a fine modern city, to be compared…
August 28, 2013In 2007 Persian English translator and writer Raha Namy set off on a bicycle ride through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, coming to a stop at the Occupied Territories of the West Bank (Israel). She an…
February 27, 2013“Istanbul’s fate is my fate: I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am.”Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk, tr. Maureen Freely After two Nordic stops, today…- October 24, 2012A poet often sculpts language to invoke memory, feelings, and reflection. In this list of found poems, we discovered seven memorial sites all over the world that have incorporated poetry to commemorat…
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