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An oil painting of a house surrounded by woodlands. The paint is very heavily layer, creating texture at the surface.

“Suffering Memory”: The Unseen Worlds of Marilène Phipps

February 28, 2019 |

A statue of a reclining figure in a cemetery

Five Catalan Poems

February 26, 2019 |

A sculpted bust of the minotaur, who seems boyish and frail

Two Poems

February 21, 2019 |

A desultory looking bar, decked with neon signs, presumably in Las Vegas

Two Vegas Poems

February 19, 2019 |

An aqueous looking figure supports another figure rendered in reds and browns

Healing the Wounded: A Conversation with Artist Florine Démosthène

February 14, 2019 |

A woman stands in front of a wall covered in newspaper articles, holding up a tan colored globe that covers her face

A Voice of Passion for Global Literatures: Svend Erik Larsen’s Border-Shifting World

February 12, 2019 |

An ornately set table for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year

Cultural Cross Sections

Celebrating Lunar New Year with the Vo Family

February 07, 2019 |

Water lilies floating on the surface of blue water

A Post Office without a Country

February 04, 2019 |

Packaged foods hang uniformly from wall pegs in a Japanese convenience store

In Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store, a Microcosm of Japanese Society

January 31, 2019 |

A sculpted angel throws herself across a grave in a show of grief

Two Poems

January 29, 2019 |

The covers to The Carrying, The Overstory, and The Beekeeper juxtaposed in a tryptich

The 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Shortlist: A Salute

January 25, 2019 |

Humberto Ak’abal looks down at his text as he reads aloud

Cultural Cross Sections

Nobody Sees Us: The Poetry of Humberto Ak’abal

January 24, 2019 |

A large inkblot stain on white paper, through which writing on the opposite side just just be seen but not read

Exile Dossier

January 22, 2019 |

A bird standing on a pebble beach looking directly at the viewer

Literary Tributes

Remembering Mary Oliver: The Poetics of Grieving and Comfort

January 18, 2019 |

A child's hand pressed up against glass with a moth perched on the other side

Ask the Evening Light Its Shape

January 17, 2019 |

Loretta Klobah juxtaposed with the cover to her book Ricantations

Chronicling Puerto Rico: Loretta Collins Klobah’s Ricantations

January 15, 2019 |

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