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This poster was published in a special issue of Rocinante in 1971. The entire issue was dedicated to Valdivia on the second anniversary of her death.

La Comandante Maya: Rita Valdivia on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Death of Che Guevara

October 03, 2017 |

Mural in Cochabamba, Bolivia / Photo by proyecto mARTadero

Five Bilingual Poems from Bolivia

October 03, 2017 |

Friday Lit Links: Banned Books Week, International Translation Day, and the WLT Translation Prize

September 29, 2017 |

Jacqueline Williams (Aunt Ester) and Alfred H. Wilson (Solly Two Kings) in the 2015 Court Theatre production of Gem of the Ocean / Photo by Michael Brosilow

Religion and Redemption in the Plays of August Wilson: A Conversation with Riley Keene Temple

September 27, 2017 |

Samoylov as a soldier in the Red Army in the 1940s

A Poem from Russia

September 26, 2017 |

Friday Lit Links: Week of September 22

September 22, 2017 |

This view of Saturn’s rings from the “ringscape finale” series was among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth (September 13, 2017) / Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

A Poem for Cassini

September 20, 2017 |

A still from Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou

The Complex and Comic Life of Luis Buñuel

September 18, 2017 |

Coffee and a book on a table

Friday Lit Links: Week of September 15

September 15, 2017 |

Gillie Rhodes, “Log pile,” November 7, 2009

Three Poems for Autumn

September 13, 2017 |

Mestizos Come Home

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Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s book Mestizos Come Home! wins 2017 International Latino Book Award

September 12, 2017 |

Left: Stanley Gazemba. Right: Book cover for Forbidden Fruit

Humble Beginnings Make Solid Roots: A Conversation with Stanley Gazemba

September 11, 2017 |

2018 Neustadt Prize finalists

Friday Lit Links: 2018 Neustadt Prize finalists and the “book women” on horseback

September 08, 2017 |

Grave at the US/Mexico border taken at a cemetery near Anthony, New Mexico, July 19, 2015 / Photo by Lanie Elizabeth

A Poem from the Americas

September 07, 2017 |

Liu Xiaobo, 1991 / Courtesy of Wang Ya

A Poem from China in Memory of Liu Xiaobo

September 06, 2017 |

2018 Neustadt Prize Finalists

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2018 Neustadt Prize Finalists Announced

September 05, 2017 |

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