Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in…
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- Photo: Frankieleon/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews The new owner of the Elizabeth Bishop House shares why she sees the poet and Neustadt laureate’s home as “sacred.” Recent WLT…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young T…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature jury and finalists were announced this week. For the first time ever, the finalists are all women.Author Alexander Ch…
- Muhammad Ali signing autographs for Volendam women. Wikimedia CommonsNews, Reviews, and InterviewsNPR’s Juan Vidal writes about Muhammad Ali’s poetic side and his skill for linguist…
- Photo by Wolfram Burner/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews Poet Mai Mang shares these two poems in the wake of the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Mass…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews Via Utne Reader, 2016 Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić shares about the experience of being a finalist—and then winner—for a big literary prize…
- Photo by kl801/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews South Korean writer Han Kang—featured on the cover of the current issue of WLT—has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews Deepak Unnikrishnan is the inaugural winner of the Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize. Polish poet and Neustadt laureate Adam Zagajewski has won the 201…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews The winners for the Best Translated Book Awards have been announced! WLT contributing editor David Shook’s press Phoneme has taken home the BTBA in poetry f…
- Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. Painted by Evert A. Duyckinick, based on a drawing by George RichmondNews, Reviews, and InterviewsIn this interview with Saikat Majmudar, he discusses his new novel…
- Photo: Comfreak/PixabayNews, Reviews, and InterviewsArchivists discovered unpublished works by Pablo Neruda in 2014, and those works will be published in English this May in a collection titled Th…
- Photo by Guillermo Galan/FlickrKeeping tabs on the poets in your city or state can be a daunting task, but poets all over the world? To help with that, we’ve put together this short but powerful…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews The PEN Literary Award winners have been announced! The 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners have also been announced—recent Neustadt juror Valeria Luiselli won t…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews The AWP Conference continues through this weekend! Catch WLT’s editor in chief this afternoon and evening, and be sure to attend our poetry reading “Crossin…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article on Literary Hub, Ayelet Tsabari shares why she has chosen to write in English instead of Hebrew. Recently featured in WLT, poe…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article from the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks details the “translation paradox.” Recent WLT contributor Gabeba Baderoon has bee…
- Photo by Lubos Huska/PixabayNews, Reviews, and Interviews The Quietus interviews Deborah Smith on her work translating Korean author Han Kang and her progress on launching a new publishi…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Neustadt Festival has been announced! WLT will invite Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić to the OU campus Oct. 26-28.Katrina Dodson won the 2…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsVia the New Yorker, the story behind Salvadoran writer Jorge Galán’s choice to flee his country after the publication of his recent novel Noviembre.…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews Author Aleksandar Hemon reflects on the deadly error in dehumanizing millions of refugees.In this review of Inongo vi Makomè’s book Natives, Aaron Bady disc…
- Valzhyna Mort. Photo: Tyler ChristianNews, Reviews, and Interviews In this radio interview with OU’s NPR affiliate, recent Neustadt juror Valzhyna Mort details her passion for poetry and the powe…
- Image: MyBookmark/EtsyNews, Reviews, and Interviews This Hong Kong bookseller is keeping banned books on his shelves, selling works that are critical of the Chinese leadership. Slovenian aut…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews This week on the Race Matters radio show, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas discusses race and immigration with WLT art director Merleyn…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsWe’re sad to report that Mexican Amercian poet Francisco X. Alarcón died of cancer last week. His poetry explored Chicano life in the US. He contributed a poem to WLT’…