Tour guide at the Queen Mine in Bisbee / Photo by Scott Durgan / Flickr
Last summer, I spent July and part of August in a straw-bale house in Cochise County, less than half an hour north of B…
Woody Guthrie
May 7, 2019
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I met Mahreen Sohail eight years ago when we shared a Tudor-style cottage at Yaddo, the artist residency in Saratoga Springs. When I asked her…
Mirza Alakbar Sabir and the first issue of Molla Nasreddin / Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
The satirist and poet Mirza Alakbar Sabir (…
Pioneer Summer, also referred to in English as “Summer in a Pioneer Necktie,” is a queer romance written in Russian in 2016 by Ukrainian…
Friedrich Schleiermacher, in his 1813 lecture On the Different Methods of Translating, famously proposed that translators face two paths: to…
Venita Blackburn is a faculty member in the creative writing program at California State University, Fresno, and the founder and president of…
