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Photo by Gavyn Redd / Shevaun Williams Photography This essay is a stroll through the oeuvre of the 2022 Neustadt Prize winner, Boubacar Boris Diop. It offers a foray into his formative years, followed by an exploration of the most... -
Still from Sembène’s Borom Sarret (Cart Driver) (1963) | Courtesy of IMDB.com Boubacar Boris Diop’s novel Doomi Golo is a rich puzzle of personal and historical narratives on the dilemma of postcolonial identity and... -
Vitoria Correia and Nathaniel Tylor in Black and Blues / Jordan Nicks, director of photography / Courtesy of the Flight Agency Author’s note: “Chasing Light” serves as a companion piece for the dance film Black and Blues,... -
Photo by Paul Domenick / Flickr This shadowed morning you write thought and read the garden You readjust the graded papers in your briefcase and wait for the enemies of knowledge to arrive Teaching is like watering a garden... -
Basma Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian author and psychiatrist recognized for her fictional works al-Ṭābūr (2013; Eng. The Queue, 2016; reviewed in WLT) and Hunā Badan (2018; Eng. Here Is a... -
In the past, regrettably, there has been a dearth of translations of Ukrainian literature available in English. This situation has dramatically changed over the last decade with numerous authors and various new anthologies now in print. That number... -
Ukrainian flag on Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) / Photo by SerenityRose / Flickr In November 2013 Ukrainian citizens took to the streets when their government suspended plans to sign an association agreement with the... -
Tumbalá, Chiapas / Photo by Carol Rose Little The following interview was conducted in Ch’ol at the poet’s house in Tumbalá, Mexico, on January 7, 2022. Little and Friedman’s translations of three of Peñate’s poems appear here in the... -
The African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts through its book series, contests, workshops, and seminars, and through its collaborations with publishers, festivals... -
Photo © by Yousef Khanfar Terrifying, that ringing of the phone then that voice, insistent, sad “Send your aid eastward all your uncles are now refugees” I sighed deeply, ached for them Then I sent my uncles clothing I had collected for...
