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Three Poems from Greece

August 07, 2018 |

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Old New Griefs

August 02, 2018 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

Hill Elementary

July 31, 2018 |

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Ode to an Apron

July 26, 2018 |

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Mame Bougouma Diene and the Promise of African Horror

July 24, 2018 |

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Four Poems

July 18, 2018 |

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Going the Distance: Three Summer Reads

July 16, 2018 |

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Friday Lit Links — Week of July 13

July 13, 2018 |

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Postmodern Idylls Framed for Family: Reading Karl Ove Knausgård’s Autumn

July 11, 2018 |

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News and Events

Finalists Announced for 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

July 10, 2018 |

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Tracy K. Smith’s Poetry and the Erasures of American History

July 09, 2018 |

The cover to Zhu Zhu's The Wild Great Wall juxtaposed with a photo of the author

Translating Zhu Zhu: Poetry as Lifeline

July 03, 2018 |

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On the Border of Understanding

July 02, 2018 |

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Friday Lit Links — Week of June 29

June 29, 2018 |

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News and Events

Three OU Students Receive 2018 Neustadt Design Awards from World Literature Today

June 28, 2018 |

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Writing beyond English: The Challenges of Inventing Non-English Worlds in English-Language Novels

June 27, 2018 |

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