It’s no secret that the city of Austin is a music-festival mecca, but this November the 21st annual Texas Book Festival proved that a literary festival can equally flourish and energize this arts-and-…
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October 12, 2015Participants at the first South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival I have just returned from an extraordinary journey into the Republic of Poetry. The occasion was the first South Asian Diaspora Poetry…- August 14, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Mark your calendars for the National Book Festival held in Washington D.C., which is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. The theme for this year is a quote from Thomas J…
- April 3, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews This year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tomas Tranströmer receiving the Neustadt Prize, and we were saddened to hear he passed away last week. Read his poem “Okl…
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