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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 |

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Walking The Back Roads to March: To Love the Game

July 02, 2020 |

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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 |

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

June 22, 2020 |

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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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Sunday Morning

June 16, 2020 |

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Pandemic Dispatches

This, Too, Is War

June 15, 2020 |

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Pandemic Dispatches

Egyptian Movie Stars: Our Friends for Dinner

June 10, 2020 |

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Witch Trials, Symbiotic Mutualism, and the Poetry of Fury and Yearning: A Conversation with Kathryn Nuernberger

June 10, 2020 |

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Ferns

June 08, 2020 |

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