COVER FEATURE
Yatika Fields (Osage, Cherokee, Creek), White Buffalo Calf Woman March, oil on canvas, 2017, Hood Museum collection
Literary Activism

Guest Editor - Allison Hedge Coke
Featuring
Simon Ortiz
Tommy Orange
Dean Chavers
Emily Rapp Black
Nancy Morejón
Duane Niatum
Craig Santos Perez
Vickie Vértiz
Wang Ping
Susan Straight
Mikeas Sánchez
Lindantonella Solano Mendoza
Reyna Grande
Luis J. Rodriguez
Mohja Kahf
Barbara Jane Reyes
Miguel M. Morales
Jan Beatty
Ashanti Anderson
Sandra Alcosser
Brenda Hillman
Jake Skeets
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Allison Hedge Coke
Yatika Fields (Osage, Cherokee, Creek), White Buffalo Calf Woman March, oil on canvas, 2017, Hood Museum collection for my always engaged father, who passed at the VA in Norman, O...
Autumn 2019
World Literature Today’s autumn issue celebrates U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo with poems and an interview inside, and the cover feature devoted to Literary Activism commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Alcatraz occupation that began in November 1969, guest-edited by Allison Hedge Coke. As always, a generous selection of book reviews and other features round out the issue.
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
by Daniel Simon
In Every Issue
City Profile
Madrid’s Bold and Fearless Art
by T. Patrick Ortez
Translator’s Note
Translating Women’s Stories out of Oblivion
by Aaron Robertson
What to Read Now
Borders
by Sasha Pimentel
Lit Trends
Favorite 2019 Book Covers (So Far)
by Kayla E. Ciardi
International Crime & Mystery
The First Twenty Years of the Twenty-First Century: Ten Reading Suggestions and a Farewell
by J. Madison Davis
Editor’s Pick
The Wild Boy by Paolo Cognetti
by Rob Vollmar
Outpost
Cafe Ohlone, Berkeley
by Ella Parsons
Interviews
Cultivating Empathy and Humility: A Conversation with Laila Lalami
by Jocelyn Frelier
From the Heart of the Void: A Conversation with Annie Le Brun
by Karl Pollin-Dubois
Essays
The Poetry of Heartbreak: Miklós Radnóti’s “The Fifth Eclogue”
by Edward Hirsch
Say “Thank You”
by Emiliano Monge
PUTERBAUGH ESSAY SERIES
Not One Less
by Igiaba Scego
Poetry
Finger in the Operating Room
by Fatemeh Shams
Bless This Land
by Joy Harjo
There Was No Plot
by Coral Bracho
Fiction
The Unsevered Tongue
by Dipika Mukherjee
The Moon through the Hard Water: America Doesn’t Like Me
by Zsuzsa Selyem
Literary Activism
ESSAY
An Active Measure
by Allison Hedge Coke
INTERVIEW
Resisting the Violence through Writing: A Conversation with Tommy Orange
by Heather J. Shotton
ESSAY
Alcatraz Is Not an Island
by Dean Chavers
ESSAY
Storytelling as Activism
by Emily Rapp Black
POETRY
Those Who Are Leaving
by Nancy Morejón
POETRY
Moments Hard to Piece Together
by Duane Niatum
ESSAY
Guam and Literary Activism
by Craig Santos Perez
POETRY
Do you know what time it is?
by Vickie Vértiz
ESSAY
Exodus, Labor, Love
by Susan Straight
AUDIO POETRY
We Are Millions
by Mikeas Sánchez
POETRY
Two Wayuu Poems
by Lindantonella Solano Mendoza
ESSAY
Immigration and Transformation: My Literary Metamorphosis
by Reyna Grande
ESSAY
From Our Land to Our Land
by Luis J. Rodriguez
POETRY
Rima Refuses the Question, April 8, 2012
by Mohja Kahf
POETRY
Three Tracks from Brown Girl Mixtape
by Barbara Jane Reyes
ESSAY
If Not Today, Then Maybe Tomorrow
by Miguel M. Morales
POETRY
Hot in the Striped Boy’s Heart
by Jan Beatty
POETRY
If
by Ashanti Anderson
ESSAY
Celebrating the Tribes and Species of the World and the Radiant Symmetries That Join Us
by Sandra Alcosser
POETRY
Activism & Poetry: A Brief Report
by Brenda Hillman
ESSAY
Poetry as Field
by Jake Skeets
INTERVIEW WEB EXCLUSIVE
Imagining a More “Tender Country”: A Conversation with Craig Santos Perez
by Emily Vizzo
POETRY
Pity the Nation
by Wang Ping