It’s that time of the year again, National Poetry Month! Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 27, and in celebration, we offer these five poems to read, share, and carry in your pocket for later as we cel…
Poem in Your Pocket Day
April 26, 2017- May 2, 2014It was another great week, filled with announcements from various literary prizes. Below, we’ve provided links to announcements about the Best Translated Book Awards, the Lambda Literary Prize, and Or…
April 25, 2014This week was full of celebrations, once again. Though we said goodbye to Gabriel García Márquez, literary readers, writers, and publishers around the globe celebrated his exceptional life. We also ce…
April 23, 2014Photo by andifansnet/Flickr. Adaption by Jen Rickard Blair. Poem in your Pocket Day is tomorrow (April 24th), and you can celebrate by carrying your favorite poem with you and sharing it with…
April 17, 2013Tomorrow is National Poem in Your Pocket Day, and we are providing a printable PDF of “Words” by Dana Gioia, and the download comes paired with the Spanish translation by José Emilio Pacheco. The…
Recent Posts
Photo by Chris Ensminger / Unsplash
Wolf Food (prologue)
by Marina and Sergey Dyachenkotranslated by Katie Kassam
…
Photo by Evelyn Paris / UnsplashNational Anthem
This is my room, it
is called Iceland. A sea cable fastens
it to Europe and to here and
from here…
Katie Kassam and Vala Thorodds, winners of the 2023 Student Translation PrizesWorld Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-…
The author’s mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlinAward-winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea describes Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown, 2023) as “…
Top row (left to right): Angie Cruz, Ananda Devi (credit: J.F. Paga (Grasset)), Jenny Erpenbeck (credit: Shevaun Williams)
Middle row: Valeria…
