Arch 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…
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November 30, 2015
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Not nearly enough writers are translators, but all translators are writers. (And novelists and poets and essayists and playwrights and memoirists.)…
Eleanor Wilner / Photo by J. J. Tiziou / Academy of American Poets
Eleanor Wilner is a much-recognized member of the American literary…
If Palestinian literature is truly a literature of exile—one that focuses on memory and redeeming the geography and lives shattered in 1948—the Six-…
Carroll Beauvais / Photo courtesy of carrollbeauvais.com
As a trauma therapist, I felt a deep chord strike inside of me while reading …
Photo by Ammad / Adobe Stock
This poem came to me, passed cell phone to cell phone by journalists, with the request that I help it be…
