Published in January by Small Beer Press, Three Messages and a Warning brings together thirty-four of what the editors call “contemporary Mexican short stories of the fantastic.” Each of them…

GO Events what: Mellon Visiting Artist Talk with Paul Muldoon  when: Wednesday, February 6, 7pm where: Italian Academy/Casa Italiana, New York, NY more info: http://ow.ly/hp8s7 Workshops what:…

A poet in Belarus is, as Pushkin said, more than a poet.

Your torturer is sleeping because it's his holiday.

Now it shrieks as if somebody were sawing iron: / It's you! It's you!

I leaned, picked up the fire, and tossed it / from one hand to the other.

My mother started chemotherapy.

I translated my first story when I was thirteen. It was done for purely altruistic reasons: I’d read a fabulous sci-fi story by Robert Sheckley called The Odor of Thought and wanted my best friend…

Our “Translator Relay” series features a new interview each month. This month's translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth question. This month, Peter Constantine…

GO what: Fledge: A Tribute to Stacy Doris when: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 where: St. Marks Poetry Project, New York, NY more info: http://ow.ly/haBW8

READ Honors and Awards Congratulations to Sharon Olds, this year's winner of the UK's TS Eliot Prize, for her poetry collection Stag's Leap! Check out the International Prize for Arabic…

When I was sixteen, I joined a flood-relief expedition organized by the Red Cross. In the north of what was then East Pakistan, the Jamuna – the local name for the Brahmaputra river – had…

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, the best-known work of the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, appeared in book form in 1947. A year later Césaire published Soleil cou coupé,…

GO what: The Bridge Series: WWB contributor Idra Novey and Johnny Lorenz in conversation with Barbara Epler on Clarice Lispector when: Wednesday, January 23, 7pm where: The Center for Fiction, New York…

READ Honors and Awards Congratulations to the five novelists on the Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist, including WWB contributor Musharraf Ali Farooqi. The winner will be announced March 14th! Interviews,…

If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains.                             …

Christian Dumoux was born around 1950 and grew up as a mixed-race child in Madagascar. He went on to live in Benin, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Chad before moving to Paris. Dumoux’s memoir Une enfance…

GO what: Whit Griffin and Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi when: Monday, January 14, 8pm where: St. Marks Poetry Project, New York, NY more info: http://ow.ly/gNmpC what: Asymptote celebrates…

To whom does the story of the Haitian earthquake belong? Whose is it to tell, and in what form? Haitian writer and longtime Montreal resident Dany Laferrière was in Port-au-Prince for a literary…

READ Interviews, Articles, Reviews In the latest Circumference podcast, Montana Ray speaks to Yusef Komunyakaa, Goutam Datta, and Subodh Sarkar about an anthology of African American poets,…

Was there still a second floor? Don’t think about it.

Entwined concrete houses / perform pirouettes on both sides of the street

Fear sets up a tent / on our chest

You needed a guide, one of those men who lived off the flesh and blood of the camp.

I keep saying that Haiti is neither a postcard nor a nightmare.

We already know there are no words for saying some things.

drip drop / port-au-prince’s life slips away

I abhor humanitarianism.

He can clearly see all of this life of seventy-three years, two months and thirteen days.

The things he could mend! From jewelry to shoe soles, from punctured tires to bent bicycle spokes–he fixed it all.