WLT  Weekly

A photo of writer Rachel Tzvia Back juxtaposed against the cover to her book What Use is Poetry?
Book Reviews

The Uses—and Uselessness—of Poetry

October 28, 2019 |
A group of people, clad in brightly colored clothes, march toward the camera waving the Hawai'ian flag
Poetry

For all the aunties, but especially for Mary Maxine Lani Kahaulelio

October 28, 2019 |
The negative outline of a person blowing on a dandelion through which a photograph of a dirt road stretching into the distance can be seen
Poetry

On Home and Migration: Two Poems

October 24, 2019 |
A time-elapsed black and white photograph of a dancer
Cultural Cross Sections

Alicia Alonso: The Will to Be Known as a Legend

October 24, 2019 |
A black and white photo of a man walking down a sloping street in front of a wall transected by shadow
Book Reviews

Giorgio de Chirico’s Shadowed Geometry

October 23, 2019 |
A man sits outdoors in a thin yellow t-shirt with one arm draped over a block of wood next to a wooden airplane model
Poetry

Perfecto Remembers La Lucha (1970–1975)

October 22, 2019 |
A color drawing of a stone building with a tree featured prominently in the foreground
Cultural Cross Sections

Mission Project: Activism on a Smaller Scale

October 21, 2019 |
A hazy photo of a snow covered landscape
Cultural Cross Sections

Surprised by Handke

October 17, 2019 |
A black and white photograph of Ismail Kadare
News and Events

Ismail Kadare Wins Prestigious 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

October 16, 2019 |
A triptych featuring three covers from the list below
Lit Lists

Feminist Writing by Women from around the World

October 16, 2019 |
Four photographs of the author's mother
Cultural Cross Sections

Landmarks and Mines

October 15, 2019 |
The legs of a dancer, clad in blue jeans and cowboy boots
Cultural Cross Sections

Home, Home on the Clyde

October 14, 2019 |
Photos of the 9 of the 11 visiting writers
News and Events

Eleven visiting writers to deliver public readings

October 11, 2019 |
A pair of weathered hands cupping corn grains
Cultural Cross Sections

Relational Activism and Indigenous Futures

October 10, 2019 |
A boy sits in a chair reading in front of a wall
Cultural Cross Sections

Pain and Glory: A Self-Portrait of Director as Prodigal Son

October 08, 2019 |
The text reads: Litekyan, proclamation, with typhoon wind, a precedent set by the white man’s purchase, from alcatraces, pelicans, prutehi, freedom within constraints, Litekyan, twenty-four dollars ($24) in glass beads, Fakmåta Guåhan! Barsandbullets, we protest life-fire training range complex, prutehi, prutehi, gone the hurricane of further desecrations, Litekyan, we offer this treaty in good faith, this tiny island would be a symbol of the great lands once ruled by free and noble Indians, fledglings swal
Poetry

Calls to Demand the Return (for a Fair Price, in Good Faith) or, With Typhoon Wind: We, Prisoners of Conscience, Protest Bars and Bullets, Swallowed Fledglings, the Gone Hurricane of Pelicans (from alcatraces), and Further Desecrations

October 08, 2019 |