literary activism
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March 23, 2020 |
In 2012, at sixteen years old, Joshua Wong and the pro-democracy student group he founded took on the Hong Kong government, mobilized more than one hundred thousand student protesters, and surpri... -
November 21, 2019 |
Photo by Ervins Strauhmanis / Flickr 1 We maintain antiquity and elegance on paper; inside we are full of shame. We present heaven and hell on paper; our self-disgust resul... -
November 18, 2019 |
Photo by Teemu008 / Flickr When Juan de Ayala passed through the Golden Gate on August 5, 1775, he didn’t see a Morus bassanus, un Fou de Bassan, or un Alcatrace fro... -
November 11, 2019 |
Photo by klaxtonphoto / Flickr aya, Wesley Leonard weenswiaani. niila myaamia. As a linguist, citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, and participant for many years in my community’s efforts t... -
November 11, 2019 |
Alex Jacobs, Tribal Voice – John Trudell (11 x 14 fabric collage on board), courtesy of the artist The best description of America was made some five hundred years ago: “If it didn’t exist... -
November 7, 2019 |
Photo by James St. John / Flickr Fences I will never think of this in the same way, watching the woman in her daily brown skirt throw her own body against the fence and try... -
November 1, 2019 |
Dorothy Wang of Williams College, Ammiel Alcalay of the Graduate Center City University of New York (CUNY), and Sesshu Foster at the CUNY Graduate Center, March 27, 2018 / Photo courtesy of the a... -
October 28, 2019 |
Photo by Bryan Kuwada Aunty says She climbed a ninety-foot cliff in the dark Traced the scars of a long-forgotten waterfall Cried as she felt the green disappearing under her fingertips An... -
October 24, 2019 |
Photo collage courtesy of the author El Matador after Argentina’s World Cup Victory in 1978 La Patria comes dressed in multiple costumes, durin... -
October 22, 2019 |
Perfecto Santiago / Courtesy of the author Culebra, Puerto Rico, 2018 Let us sit in the open air where days I work, my hands shaping a small plane out of sticks. I tell you only wh... -
October 21, 2019 |
“Unmarked Grave of Toypurina: Mission San Juan Bautista,” from When Rivers Were Trails, Indian Land Tenure Foundation through MSU, 2018, by Weshoyot Alvitre / Courtesy of the artist If you did... -
October 15, 2019 |
Diane Zephier / Courtesy of the author There are maps of “Points of Interest” or landmarks tourists visit every summer dotted across the prairies of Sioux country. Landmarks on maps detail whe... -
October 10, 2019 |
Elder Crosslin Smith holds heirloom Cherokee corn (selu) grown by tribal staff for a group activity on traditional cooking / Photo by Nancy Rackliff For Indigenous peoples, the political is en... -
October 8, 2019 |
after Ai Wei Wei, Michael Lujan Bevacqua, and various documents of protest by Indigenous dissidents1,2 -
October 3, 2019 |
Photo by Mimi Di Cianni on Unsplash There is a Red Barn Ice Cream shop near Watertown in upstate New York. There, in the middle of nowhere, was ice cream with real fruit, whole strawberries in... -
August 1, 2019 |
Earlier this summer, the editors of WLT invited more than two dozen writers to nominate one book, published since 1969, that most influenced their extraliterary commi...
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"Abstract Yellow Cliffs," Acrylics, 73x50cm by Kazuya Akimoto. Used with permission from the artist.
Series editor’s note: In...
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[A flock of cranes]
A flock of cranes
crosses an ashen sky
the prophet is...
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A new mother in Mexico contemplates the future—for her daughter, for all of us.
On February 1,...
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John Feinstein, when he wrote The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a...
