Alice-Catherine Carls is Tom Elam Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Martin. An internationally published diplomatic and cultural historian of twentieth-century Europe, she is also a translator and literary critic. She serves on several editorial boards and commissions in the United States and abroad.
Para on Lake Baikal in southern Siberia / Photo courtesy of the author
Editorial note: “Siberian Romance,” a suite of Para’s poems, accompanies this introductory essay.
Born in 1956,...
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Houston’s Second Poet Laureate (2015–2017) and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters since 2019, Robin Davidson is the author of three books of poetry: Kn...
Giono’s hometown of Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in southeastern France / Photo by Phil Richards / Flickr
Written late in life, “Le Haut Pays” and “Camargue”—once again paired in the...
Ewa Lipska / Photo by Włodzimierz Wasyluk / Culture.pl
Released shortly before the death of Adam Zagajewski, Ewa Lipska’sDear Ms. Schubert (Princeton University Press, 2021)...
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was shown as the premiere when the Forest Theatre in Gdańsk opened in 1911 / Photo by magro_kr / Flickr
Anna Frajlich, who recently added to he...
Ghetto Heroes Square in Kraków / Photo by annaspies / Flickr
Piotr Florczyk’s From the Annals of Kraków (Lynx House Press, 2020) narrates the searing realization of an almost unnoti...
Images courtesy of Italo Lanfredini / italolanfredini.it
Invitations
The outside brick wall of La Silenziosa, Italo Lanfredini’s house-studio-open-air-museum near Commessaggio, Italy,...
Pachamama / Pichincha / Photo by Scipio
Rocío Durán-Barba / Photo by Stephen Carls
Rocío Durán-Barba is one of the most important voices of Latin American literature today. The author of mo...
My association with the work of Józef Wittlin started when Professor Anna Frajlich invited me to write a paper about Wittlin’s association with France for her 1996 Józef Wittlin conference at Columbi...
Dany Laferrière was elected to the French Academy in 2013. Edwidge Danticat won the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2018 and is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant....
Pierre and Marie Cayol
To know Pierre and Marie Cayol is to enter an immediate circle of friendship that reaches far and wide and represents a towering monument of achievements, ties, and ever...
Hélène Dorion / Photo by Maxime G. Delisle - Background photo by Alexas_Photos / Pixabay
One of the major themes throughout Quebecois writer Hélène Dorion’s work is her focus on the relationship betw...
Falcon photo courtesy of Quentin Dr / Unsplash
The Poem to the Poet
Erase again! Farther lead this rhythmTo capture the cloud and the ploughshare,Slow is the night that looks throug...
Click here to read three poems by Joanna Pollakówna, never before translated into English.
Joanna Pollakówna / Courtesy of Alice-Catherine Carls
Joanna Pollakówna (1939–2002) authored poems...
Anna Frajlich-Zając / Courtesy of Culture.pl
The year 2016 was one of homecoming for famed Polish American poet Anna Frajlich. Recently retired from her position as senior lecturer of Polish language...
Zofia and Kazimierz Romanowicz in front of the Galerie Lambert in 1962 / Courtesy of the Archiwum Emigracji, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Toruń, Poland
For more, read these four poems by Zo...