Articles

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) provides resources, community, support, and advocacy to the translation community, ensuring that diverse voices from around the world are translated, published, and made accessible to readers in the United States and beyond.

Free professional development program in Chicago invites educators to deepen and energize poetry instruction

Meet Richard Hell: former punk scourge, avowed nihilist, and genteel man of letters. 

Its whitewashed facade gleamed in the sun, camouflaging the sinister history behind its walls.

Presenting free poetry events, celebrations of forthcoming titles, and a new visual series. 

I have found that to translate is to converse deeply, and to discover how much we have in common with those we may feel far from. 

Susan Howe's work distills the entire American poetic tradition. 

Split This Rock serves as a home for socially engaged poets. 

On the poetry and activism of Breyten Breytenbach.

I loved the South, but I left it. I think I always planned to. 

For those who work daily in art, theater, and writing, inspiration is not the mysterious visitation of a scantily clad muse in a floating Doric chiton; it is simply the last visible step of an organized process.

Her poems drew power from contradiction: ferocity held in lyric restraint, grief braided with humor, the sacred brushing against the profane.

For the beloved queer trickster Kevin Killian, pop culture was always entangled with death. 

InsideOut Literary Arts guides young people to express themselves, vocalize their challenges, and imagine new possibilities for the future through creative writing.

For Larry, poetry was the molecular music of life.

The Poems of Seamus Heaney entombs him as the bard of a fading liberal order.

Psychic Distance in Poetry