© Pieter van der Meer / Tineke de Lange I'd originally planned to post this poem 5--yes, five --years ago, but like the 75+ other d...

Paulo Leminski (photo Julio Covello) It has been eons since I've posted translations; the last, I think, were several poems by Sunj...

Last summer, one of the books I picked up while in France at the James Baldwin: International Traveler conference in Montpellier was Su...

Congratulations and best wishes, Class of 2014! It is mid-May, which means the end of the semester at Rutgers . Courses concluded la...

Just days after winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction  for her extraordinary novel Americanah (Knopf, 2013), Chimamand...

If you are in or around Brooklyn this evening, drop by MoCADA to catch PATTERN RECOGNITION , an amazing exhibit of contemporary abstract ...

WRONG DESTINATION I hired an aeroplane And put my thoughts on it. "Take us," I told the pilot "To that place where I ...

Willie Pedomo, by Gabrielle Ramírez The following two poems, though nominally night-focused, are really occasions for me to post work b...