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Rich, “On a Saturday Afternoon” (on the road from Royal, Nebraska, to the Ashfall Fossil Beds), May 25, 2013
Poetry

Two Poems

June 14, 2017 |
Sherman Alexie doing a lively reading of his children’s book Thunder Boy Jr. on the ASU Tempe campus.
Lit Lists

A new short story by Sherman Alexie, Bob Dylan’s Nobel acceptance speech, and more

June 09, 2017 |
Incognito by Biljana Obradovic
Book Reviews

Casting the Wanderer’s Eye in Biljana Obradović’s Incognito

June 07, 2017 |
Starling murmuration. Photo by Airwolfhound/Flickr
On Translation

A New “Murmuration” Among Translators: The Starling Bureau

June 06, 2017 |
Brian Doyle. Photo by Sam Beebe/Flickr
Lit Lists

A tribute to Brian Doyle, Sherman Alexie’s new memoir, and more

June 02, 2017 |
Tanure Ojaide / Urhobo Historical Society
Book Reviews

Assuming the Minstrel’s Mantle in Tanure Ojaide’s Songs of Myself

May 31, 2017 |
Drawing by Lea Goldberg / Courtesy of Tuvia Ruebner
On Translation

The Last Poems of Lea Goldberg

May 30, 2017 |
Open book on a desk in sunlight
Lit Lists

Poems for Memorial Day, Nabokov’s favorite word, and more

May 26, 2017 |
Geoff Whalan, “Mistletoe Bird (Diaceum hirundinaceum),” Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Middle Point, Northern Territory, Australia, November 8, 2015
Poetry

Three Poems from Australia

May 24, 2017 |
Firebreaks
Book Reviews

A Pause amid the Storm in John Kinsella’s Firebreaks

May 24, 2017 |
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912), oil on canvas, 147 × 89.2 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Poetry

Two Bilingual Poems from Chile

May 22, 2017 |
Open book in the grass
Lit Lists

Ancient cookbooks as poetry, Margarita Engle wins Young People’s Poet Laureate, and more

May 19, 2017 |
Mad Country
Book Reviews

Political Seepage in Samrat Upadhyay’s Mad Country

May 17, 2017 |
Joanna Pollakówna
On Translation

A Terrible Ecstasy: The Poetry of Joanna Pollakówna

May 16, 2017 |
Giovanni Bellini, Pietà (1505), oil on wood, 65 x 90 cm, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
Poetry

Three Poems from Poland

May 15, 2017 |
BTBA 2017 winners
Lit Lists

The 2017 BTBA winners, the importance of Vietnamese American literature, and more

May 05, 2017 |

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