Poetry
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April 5, 2016 |
Westpark, “parkverbot,” 2009 Alice Sant’Anna (b. 1988) is a prize-winning critically and internationally acclaimed poet from Rio de Janeiro who follows in the path of Brazil’s “marginal generation” p... -
April 1, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The AWP Conference continues through this weekend! Catch WLT’s editor in chief this afternoon and evening, and be sure to attend our poetry reading “Crossing t... -
March 23, 2016 |
Alex Ringer, “Thistle-Garden (Cynara syriaca f. alba),” Jezreel Valley, Israel Introductory note by translator Rachel Tzvia Back Tuvia Ruebner was born in Slovak... -
March 15, 2016 |
vk-red, “Somewhere over the rain with no bow,” 2015 Fuchsia Branch in the Wind by Judita Vaičiūnaitė I block the sea’s wind from the branch.My black umbrella shelters it from rain.Its blosso... -
February 17, 2016 |
Stone faces in Cambodia. Photo by Tammy Ho. In the second installment of “Asian Traumatic Poetics” (to read part 1, click here), I will look at two more poems published in Cha that discuss a... -
February 12, 2016 |
Valzhyna Mort. Photo: Tyler Christian News, Reviews, and Interviews In this radio interview with OU’s NPR affiliate, recent Neustadt juror Valzhyna Mort details her passion for poetry and the power... -
February 10, 2016 |
Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009. In this post and one that will follow next week, I will explore the representation of personal trauma in po... -
January 15, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Academy of American Poets has curated this list of poems in honor and celebration. Poet Allison Hedge Coke, recently pu... -
January 6, 2016 |
A girl waves the Egyptian national flag as thousands of demonstrators participate in antigovernment protests, February 8, 2011. Photo: Felipe Trueba / EPA / Thinking Images v.9 afterwar... -
November 30, 2015 |
Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli. Photo by Neil Weightman. “Whoever is uprooted, uproots others.” Simone Weil’s wise words to Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, in 1943, with France still... -
November 17, 2015 |
The image is central to most poets and poetry. In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish,” the image is the poem. “His brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper, / and its pattern of dark... -
October 12, 2015 |
Participants 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... -
October 2, 2015 |
Jenny Erpenbeck is shortlisted for the 2015 German Book Prize. News, Reviews, and Interviews Young-adult books are often challenged. This article from the Los Angeles Times lists the 10 mos... -
September 29, 2015 |
Left: Rocío Cerón, photo by Francisco Cañedo. Right: Anna Rosenwong, photo by Jesse Chan Norris. Anna Rosenwong’s translation of Rocío Cerón’s Diorama won the... -
September 25, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2015 National Book Awards longlist is out, and Flavorwire has compiled a post that summarizes each of the books. A recent article from the New York Times po...
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September 23, 2015 |
Roberto Fernández Retamar in 2015,illustration by Michael Hoeweler. This started out as a book review of Roberto Fernández Retamar’s Poesía nueva reunida (Letras Cubanas and Ediciones Unión... -
September 18, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews In this new video interview, United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera converses about poetry and the poet’s role in American culture today. The Man Booker Prize r...
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September 11, 2015 |
Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by Christine Zenino/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews The Reykjavik International Literary Festival continues this weekend and features authors recently featured or revi... -
September 9, 2015 |
Guillermo Arreola, Ni tú escaparás (2005), mixed media on canvas, 90 x 80cm. Courtesy of the artist. Durability of Materials L’Art est l... -
August 28, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews The new issue of Poetry International is now available. The double issue features poems by current Neustadt nominee Carolyn Forché; Neustadt laureates Tomas Tranströmer a...
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August 21, 2015 |
Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte... -
August 12, 2015 |
史国瑞 (Shi Guorui), “Shanghai,” 15–16 October 2004, unique camera obscura, gelatin silver print,129 x 440 cm. By permission of the photographer. In this YouTube video, he discusses the genesis... -
July 15, 2015 |
Idea Vilariño in Paris, ca. 1954 | Photo by Michel Sima, from Idea: la vida escrita, by Ana Inés Larre Borges (2007) | Source: elmalpensante.com Translator’s note: Idea Vil... -
July 3, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews National Book Award winner and Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie will publish his first picture book in May 2016. WLT featured Alexie on the cover of the July 201... -
June 19, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Israeli writer Etgar Keret was interviewed recently on NPR. Keret discussed how he learned storytelling and survival from his father who survived the Holocaust....
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