“A good translation appeals to our ears, eyes, and heart; it is a singular endeavor and is a humanizing act.”
From our March issue, enjoy an excerpt from US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze’s latest book + his conversation with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke.
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Books from L-R, top row then second: Folk-Say, We Pointed Them North, Oklahoma: Foot-Loose and Fancy-Free, John Joseph Mathews, And Still the Waters Run, and Ned Christie
Let's talk book history!
Next week I will give a talk on the history of @oupress.bsky.social (coauthored with Tom Kahle), "Book Publishing and the American West, Then & Now."
It's part of the American West & the Humanities series at OU.
Wednesday, 3/4, 1pm @ the Charles Russell Center.
We're in Baltimore! Join us TOMORROW NIGHT at 7pm for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026
“As I sleep, half-awake, I dream that I crack open my thorax with a surgical crowbar.”
Read Catalina Infante Beovic’s short story, “A Nostalgia for Desire,” translated by Michelle Mirabella, in our March issue.
@michellemirabella.bsky.social
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Yesterday, ASME announced its finalists for the 61st National Magazine Awards and included WLT’s July 2025 “Gaza Voices” issue as one of five magazines in the Single-Topic category alongside The Atlantic, Bloomberg Markets, New York Magazine, and Orion!
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My daughter took this photo of me during my #vss365 livestream celebration yesterday when I was talking about how our everyday creativity can contribute to the ultimate downfall of tech bros and patriarchy. That’s why I was smiling.
“A richness of language and vision pervades the entire collection, stories that ask us to consider the role of a caretaker.”
Geri Lipschultz reviews these eleven stories in Josefowicz’s third book of fiction.
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NEW — With police empowered to assist or carry out immigration enforcements, Oklahomans report fear and confusion, including during a recent raid in OKC's Asian District. | Ben Fenwick, Oklahoma Watch reports:
Out Now! "Reasons We Fight: Tejanos and American Wars, 1836-1972" by Alex Mendoza documents the circumstances that shaped military attitudes among Mexican Texans, along with their shifting ideas about identity, community, nationalism—and America itself. www.oupress.com/978080619654...
“To read The Chameleon, by Rita Signorelli-Pappas, is to flip through a book of postcards from around the world and throughout time.”
Sarah Rebecca Warren reviews this collection “bookended in examples of profound change.”
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Yes. Imagining our way out is the first step. Then comes the work. Thank you, Randy.
fellow Okie writer and friend @rilla-askew.bsky.social wrote a novel over 10 years ago that you should buy - imagining our way out of this is a big first step:
"With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma ... "
From the @academemagazine.bsky.social archives: Hank Reichman's "Eight Myths About Tenure."
"Tenure, for nearly a century the strongest bulwark in defense of academic freedom, protecting independent scholarship from shifting political winds & whims of scholarly fashion, is under withering assault."
“The book’s title alone announces Calleja’s illuminating and clever writing and the complexities of translation.”
Regina Galasso reviews this “energetic, fun, and inspired” book.
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As Narges Mohammadi, PEN America's 2023 #FreedomToWrite Awardee, starts a hunger strike to protest prison conditions for detainees, PEN America as part of the #FreeNarges Coalition steering committee stands in solidarity with Narges and demands her release. www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/m...
If you’re near the University of Oklahoma campus on Friday, Feb. 20, please join us for the Oklahoma debut of the WLT centennial anthology A Compass on the Navigable Sea. We’ll be in Gould Hall, room 130, at 3pm.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
today on the good news front: journalism in Oklahoma is still alive and kicking ass (also donate to Frontier if you can)
‘Ain’t nobody coming to save us, except us.’ from Tom Morello’s intro
Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis earlier today. Please share and let this ring out from sea to shining sea. ICE out now!
Springsteen Takes the Stage as Minneapolis Residents Take to the Streets www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Bruce shows up in Minneapolis!
In this essay in our January issue, Chelsea T. Hicks and Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse discuss their rematriation work in Oklahoma, Iraq, and beyond.
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For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a New Fight Echoes a Bitter History www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”:
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Plans for a large ICE processing center in southwest OKC have been disclosed. City officials aim to involve the public in the approval process, although they admit there are few legal avenues to halt the project. | Brett Fieldcamp reports: freepressokc.com/few-options-...
The Havoc That One Disgruntled Student Can Wreak on a University www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Citizens filled the City Council chamber on Tuesday, waiting for their chance to voice anger and opposition over a planned ICE facility in southwest OKC. | Brett Fieldcamp was there and reports: freepressokc.com/city-council...
