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A Kashmiri village, swaddled in snow and ice

My Father’s Sawmill

July 20, 2020 |Feroz Rather

A photograph of a multi-colored merry go round on the snowy ground outside of a school

The Winners

July 17, 2020 |Erica X Eisen

A photograph of a bright yellow flower with a florescent blue center

A Memory of Us

July 15, 2020 |Safia Elhillo

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WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose

July 08, 2020 |

A painting of two tall cliffs, rendered in yellow

Seeing

July 08, 2020 |

A photograph of cranes flying

WLT Student Translation Prize – Poetry

July 07, 2020 |

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Pandemic Dispatches

And Make It Last, and Give It Space

July 06, 2020 |

A close up photograph of a basketball. Text on the ball reads: Wilson. NCAA.

Walking The Back Roads to March: To Love the Game

July 02, 2020 |

A photograph of Kimberly Blaeser juxtaposed with the cover to her book, Copper Yearning

Poems of Recollection: Kimberly Blaeser’s Copper Yearning

June 30, 2020 |

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Viscera

June 29, 2020 |

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Pandemic Dispatches

Shelter-in-Place: Forty-Eight Fragments, Episodes, Anecdotes, Fodders, and Vignettes

June 24, 2020 |

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Before the Riot

June 24, 2020 |

Spray painted words adorn the side of a boarded up building. Text reads: Stop killing black people. Black Lives Matter. No justice. No peace.

Black Voices: A Series Introduction

June 24, 2020 |

A photograph of Yu Miri juxtaposed with the cover to her book Tokyo Ueno Station

Yu Miri: Illusion and the “Power of Dreams” in Japan

June 22, 2020 |

A photograph of translator Megan McDowell

Translation in Service of More Empathy, Less Fear: A Conversation with Megan McDowell

June 22, 2020 |

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Native Nonfiction in the Classroom and Beyond

June 18, 2020 |

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