Geoff Livingston, “America Is a Land of Immigrants,” Dulles International Airport, January 28, 2017Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal used to say that he drew his worldview from a dry cleaner’s slip he came…
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April 23, 2014Photo by andifansnet/Flickr. Adaption by Jen Rickard Blair. Poem in your Pocket Day is tomorrow (April 24th), and you can celebrate by carrying your favorite poem with you and sharing it with…- February 8, 2013It’s been another great week of international literature filled with a variety of news from children’s books to Nigerian poetry, and we have some particularly fun literary finds this week including bo…
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