TODAY: In 1947, Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet, dies.
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- “Poems are visible right now, which is terribly ironic, because you rather wish it weren’t so necessary.” On the renewed importance of poetry (and a primer of resistance poems). | The New York Times
- I have become a language warrior: An interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “I’m stunned by how vividly, and in how few pages, it captures the potency of girlhood and the way those years can reverberate through an entire life.” Julie Buntin on Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? | Library of America
- Translation for Williams was, above all, an act of poetry: William Carlos Williams’ translation of a poem by Nicolas Calas. | Words Without Borders
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- Nobody needs anybody in Frankfurt: An excerpt from Amelia Gray’s novel Isadora. | Granta
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