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Eros Bendato (Eros bound), bronze, 1999, by Igor Mitoraj, Kraków, Poland / Photo by Val Kerry

Poetry

A Poem from Bangladesh

June 19, 2017 |

Person reading a book outside on green grass.

Lit Lists

New US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, Maaza Mengiste on the sophomore novel, and more

June 16, 2017 |

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

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

June 07, 2017 |

Starling murmuration. Photo by Airwolfhound/Flickr

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

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

May 31, 2017 |

Drawing by Lea Goldberg / Courtesy of Tuvia Ruebner

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

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

Political Seepage in Samrat Upadhyay’s Mad Country

May 17, 2017 |

Joanna Pollakówna

A Terrible Ecstasy: The Poetry of Joanna Pollakówna

May 16, 2017 |

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