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Injuring Film or Opera With Bad Subtitles [by Sholeh Wolpé]
Have you ever been to a foreign film or opera where you got the feeling you were missing the point of the story, or had been cheated of the poetry of the dialogue, poem,…
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Next Line, Please: The Winning Stanza Refuses to Cave
David Lehman has picked a winning stanza for the Next Line, Please contest hosted by The American Scholar. But it's not over yet: you're writing a sestina so there are plenty of opportunities to…
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Translating Walt Whitman [by Sholeh Wolpé]
In 2013, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa launched a multimedia web gallery with 52 weekly installments of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself in 15 languages. Each installment of the poem…
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Translating Walt Whitman [by Sholeh Wolpé]
In 2013, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa launched a multimedia web gallery with 52 weekly installments of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself in 15 languages. Each installment of the poem…
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Seven New Generation African Poets [by Sholeh Wolpé]
At the 2014 AWP conference in Seattle, I went to a reading sponsored by Slapering Hol Press, the African Poetry Book Fund, and Prairie Schooner, presenting poets from a new collection. Instead of putting…
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Seven New Generation African Poets [by Sholeh Wolpé]
At the 2014 AWP conference in Seattle, I went to a reading sponsored by Slapering Hol Press, the African Poetry Book Fund, and Prairie Schooner, presenting poets from a new collection. Instead of putting…
