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Day of the Dead: A One-Act Real Life and Death Play, A Conversation with Playwright Robert Con Davis-Undiano

October 31, 2018 |

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In Gandhi’s Name

October 30, 2018 |

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World Series Reads

October 23, 2018 |

The cover to Nebraska Poetry juxtaposed with a photo of editor Daniel Simon

News and Events

Daniel Simon Wins 2018 Nebraska Book Award

October 22, 2018 |

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Mrs. Black (an excerpt)

October 19, 2018 |

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News and Events

Margarita Engle Named Winner of the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

October 09, 2018 |

Cultural Cross Sections

Upon Learning That My Book Is Banned in Kuwait

October 10, 2018 |

The cover to Matthew Turner's book Sweden with a photo of Turner juxtaposed

A Playlist for Sweden

October 04, 2018 |

A photo of author Kat Meads juxtaposed with the cover to her book Miss Jane

Miss Jane: The Lost Years (an excerpt)

October 02, 2018 |

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No Formal Space for Intimacy (excerpts)

September 21, 2018 |

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Audrey Schulman in the Gutter of Genre

September 18, 2018 |

Neustadt Lit Fest International Books & Culture. October 9 through 11, 2018. The University of Oklahoma, Norman.

News and Events

Neustadt Lit Fest to Feature Haitian American Writer Edwidge Danticat

September 13, 2018 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

Stitching Nature and the Human Heart: The Poetry of Hélène Dorion

September 13, 2018 |

Author Dag Solstad juxtaposed with the cover to his book 'T Singer'

Norway’s Nowhere Man: Dag Solstad’s T Singer

September 11, 2018 |

A photo of a falcon juxtaposed with a photo of Marc Alyn

Cultural Cross Sections

Marc Alyn, the Quiet Monstre Sacré of French Poetry

September 06, 2018 |

Maps, maps, maps!

Two Poems

September 04, 2018 |

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