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September 13, 2016Quinn Dombrowski, “Velvet Flower,” 2008For more, read “The Renaissance of Zofia Romanowicz,” an essay by Alice-Catherine Carls. The CircleLion fangs, bear claws…
September 9, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Three Percent has announced the judges for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award, and the guidelines for eligibility and submissions are online as well. WLT c…
September 2, 2016Interior of the DOKK1 library in Aarhus, Denmark. Photo by Zorro2212/WikimediaNews, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship winners have been a…
August 30, 2016On the Mexico City subway (2016) / Still from a film by Carolina RuedaUniversidad–Indios Verdesby Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza¿Para qué forzar los sueños y las pesadillassi aquí todo convulsiona ha…
August 26, 2016Photo by Syd Wachs/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The September issue of WLT is here! Get your print or digital copy, or read the entire issue on the website for only $1.25…
August 16, 2016Noemi JaffeWhat Are the Blind Men Dreaming?Trans. Julia Sanches & Ellen Elias-BursacDeep VellumReflecting the horrors and historical significance of the Holocaust, three generations of wo…
July 22, 2016Radio Atlas use subtitles to translate various forms of audio.News, Reviews, and InterviewsRadio Atlas is a new project that aims to translate sound art without destroying the poetry of its delivery.…
July 20, 2016Esther Schwarz, “Lush (66/365),” 2009. For more of Schwarz’s photos, visit Inside My Shell. Tangerinas de Natal«Será que eles ainda fazem?» Édomingopara segunda. Resolvesa teu f…
June 28, 2016Translator’s note: Considered Morocco’s greatest living poet, Abdellatif Laâbi wrote this poem in 1975, roughly three years into his decade-long prison sentence, one of many thousand…
June 24, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young T…
June 17, 2016News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature jury and finalists were announced this week. For the first time ever, the finalists are all women.Author Alexander Ch…
June 10, 2016Muhammad Ali signing autographs for Volendam women. Wikimedia CommonsNews, Reviews, and InterviewsNPR’s Juan Vidal writes about Muhammad Ali’s poetic side and his skill for linguist…
June 3, 2016Photo by Wolfram Burner/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews Poet Mai Mang shares these two poems in the wake of the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Mass…
May 27, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Via Utne Reader, 2016 Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić shares about the experience of being a finalist—and then winner—for a big literary prize…
May 18, 2016Jack Wolf, “Yellow spider mum,” 2009Franca Mancinelli (Italy) and Ming Di (China/USA) met at the International Translation Workshop organized by the Center of Slovenian Literature in Nove…
May 10, 2016Deborah Kass’s OY / YO sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo by DUMBOID, March 4, 2016.Whenever I start to translate a Yiddish poem, I worry about capitalization. As in a lot of l…
May 6, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The winners for the Best Translated Book Awards have been announced! WLT contributing editor David Shook’s press Phoneme has taken home the BTBA in poetry f…
May 3, 2016Juan José SaerThe CloudsTrans. Hilary Vaughn DobelOpen Letter Doctor Real’s manuscript, located on a computer disk found by Pichón Garay, describes his trip with five mental patients to…
April 28, 2016Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. Painted by Evert A. Duyckinick, based on a drawing by George RichmondNews, Reviews, and InterviewsIn this interview with Saikat Majmudar, he discusses his new novel…
April 27, 2016An in-class haiku translation project (2013) / Photo courtesy of Kimiko HahnRecently, the Poetry Society of America announced award-winning poet Kimiko Hahn as its newly elected presiden…
April 22, 2016Photo: Comfreak/PixabayNews, Reviews, and InterviewsArchivists discovered unpublished works by Pablo Neruda in 2014, and those works will be published in English this May in a collection titled Th…
April 18, 2016Courtesy of the SARAS InstituteLast month I had the marvelous opportunity, as a poet, of participating in the annual conference of an international scientific organization, the South American Institut…
April 15, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The PEN Literary Award winners have been announced! The 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners have also been announced—recent Neustadt juror Valeria Luiselli won t…
April 1, 2016News, 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 “Crossin…
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