Photo: Eleni KefalaFor more, read a poem by Eleni KefalaEleni Kefala has published two volumes of poetry, Mními kai parallayés (2007; Memory and variations), wh…
Interviews
Photo © Donna LeeBorn in Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese parents, Li-Young Lee is a major poet with four collections, including The City in Which I Love You (1990), From B…
In her landmark interdisciplinary study of African diaspora religious systems through dance performances, Yvonne Daniel considers three religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavi…
Photo: Karen Van DyckLawrence Venuti is a leading translator of modern Italian and Catalan literature and internationally one of the most influential theorists in the field of literary translation…
Photo by Mateusz Skwarczek After finishing a master’s degree in physics and writing her thesis on the Higgs-Boson particle, Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan (b. 1967, Istanb…
Harvey Dunn, I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1926 / Courtesy South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South DakotaFor more, read two new poems by Ted Kooser.While in Lincoln to attend the…
Left to Right: Laleh Khadivi, Sholeh Wolpé, and Persis Karim joined around Karim’s kitchen table to discuss their contributions to Iranian diaspora literature.Persis Karim, a poet and the editor of th…
Prolific poet Simon Armitage (b. 1963, Marsden, UK) is also a novelist, playwright, lyricist, librettist, translator, and author of several books of nonfiction. In this interview, conduct…
A family man, father of three, martial arts aficionado, and longtime acolyte of Charles Bukowski, Karl Marx, and North American crime writers, Kike is known for his crime fiction. Photo:…
Arigon Starr (Kickapoo), Running Trio, digital illustration, 11 × 17 in / Courtesy of the artist (www.arigonstarr.com)A central yet surprisingly undernoted facet of Native arts pro…
Hélène Cardona. Photo: Paul SmithAs the world becomes increasingly and undeniably global, translation is more relevant than ever in reaching across borders to find both difference and common ground th…
Yoss. Photo: Restless BooksWhen we were together in Cuba in early 2015, I took a photo of Yoss tenderly holding a kitten we encountered in Old Havana. When I later asked him about life during Cuba’s S…
Michelle PretoriusIt’s 2010 in Unie, South Africa, and Constable Alet Berg is in search of her rise from disgrace. Banished from Jo’burg’s Special Forces Unit to a rural community, Berg finds herself…
Alan Moore. Photo: Joe BrownAlan Moore is the most celebrated comics writer living but doesn’t write comics anymore. For the past decade, he’s been working instead on his second novel, Jerusalem…
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. UsnerThis three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house i…
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. UsnerThis three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house i…-
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. UsnerThis three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house i…
Photo: Jean-Luc Bertini/Pasco and Co.In March 2011, after peaceful protests began to emerge across Syria, pushing for government reform, Samar Yazbek witnessed what was a passive, civil uprising becom…
Lidija Dimkovska. Photo by Tihomir PinterIt’s 1984 and two twelve-year-old sisters are playing a sidewalk game in communist Yugoslavia, only these sisters are unique: they are conjoined twins, joined…
Q: Would you like to be called a “woman writer” or just a “writer”?A: When I was young, I didn’t like the title “woman writer”; but now I’ve accepted it, because that…
Alain Mabanckou. Photo by Shevaun Williams.During his visit to the University of Oklahoma in April, Alain Mabanckou sat down with Rokiatou Soumaré—a graduate student in OU’s Department of Modern Langu…
Illustration: Alec DempsterAgustín del Moral Tejeda was born in Las Choapas, Veracruz, in 1956. An accomplished writer, journalist, editor, translator, and activist, he currently lives and works in Xa…
Viet Thanh Nguyen (photo by Bebe Jacobs), Andrew Lam, and Aimee Phan (photo by Julie Thi Underhill), respectively. Viet Thanh Nguyen became the first Vietnamese American writer to win the Pu…
Tomasz Różycki Photo: Slav ZatokaTomasz Różycki rose to both critical and popular prominence as an important voice of his generation in Poland when his fifth book, Twelve Stations, won the Ko…
