Grant Schatzman

Grant Schatzman is a writer, editor, and educator originally from Oklahoma City.

The Literary Storehouses of Coimbra, Portugal

Summer 2019
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Photo: Serge LAROCHE/Flickr TWO HOURS BY TRAIN from the capital in Lisbon and midway to Porto in the country’s northern quarter, Coimbra is home to Portugal’s oldest university. The…
Sligo, Ireland

May 2018
Grant Schatzman
Sligo’s River Garavogue. photo: dave gunn When I pulled into Sligo on the morning bus with a dog-eared copy of W. B. Yeats’s Collected Poems, I carried two wishes: first, that it would stop…
Rhythm, Pace, Place: Major Jackson’s Lyric Revolt

February 20, 2018 Grant Schatzman
Major Jackson / Photo courtesy of the author. Kehinde Wiley’s Morpheus (2008) appears on the cover of Roll Deep Major Jackson’s latest book of poetry, Roll Deep (Norton, 20…
Ler Devagar

November 2017
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Photos courtesy of Ler Devagar Lisbon is a city with no shortage of literary monuments. Look at downtown Chiado, where Livraria Bertrand continues its 285-year-old bookselling business uninterrupted,…