Alice-Catherine Carls
- September 10, 2024Caroline Cingria, C. F. Ramuz, pastel (1903) / Images courtesy of Noël CordonierLumen Obscurum Light and darkness are a major part of the global human experience; their contrast is a…
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Shizue Ogawa pays particular attention to the resonances between Western and Eastern culture that inspire her philosophical, aesthetic, and cosmic reflections. Here, Alice-Catherine Carls offer…
- June 27, 2024A recent Parisian exhibit about the pre-impressionists revealed that before painting techniques changed, artists abandoned heroic subjects and eternal, noble emotions to portray ordinary people and sc…
- October 10, 2023Photo by Alexander Grey / UnsplashIn this follow-up piece connected to her “The Keepers of the Books” essay in WLT’s May 2023 cover feature, Alice-Catherine Carls examines the role of rea…
- July 11, 2023Zuzanna Ginczanka in April 1938 / Muzeum Literatury / East NewsHistory displaced Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–1944) from birth. Born in Kiev a few days after the outbreak of the October 1917 Bolshevik revo…
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Alex Castro Ferreira, Be Proud, artist book / Courtesy of the artist / www.alexcastroferreira.com Where have books been? Where are they going? In this tour d’horizon, Alice-Catherine Carls f…
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For Shizue Ogawa, creating is more important than publishing and selling, and yet her readership has been steadily growing in Japan and internationally. Her poetry paints the world with serenity and w…
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Serge Chamchinov is a man of many languages and a scientist, visual artist, writer, and book binder. He creates first, then self-promotes his books through book reviews, exhibitions, and poetry festiv…
- April 10, 2023And these things, that live by going away, know that you praise them; fleeting, they look to us for rescue, us, the most fleeting of all. Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Ninth Elegy” The author of twenty-fi…
- March 8, 2022Para on Lake Baikal in southern Siberia / Photo courtesy of the author Editorial note: “Siberian Romance,” a suite of Para’s poems, accompanies this introductory essay. Born in 1956, Jean-Ba…
- February 22, 2022Photo by Chris Wood / Flickr Houston’s Second Poet Laureate (2015–2017) and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters since 2019, Robin Davidson is the author of three books of poetry: Kneeling…
- January 11, 2022Giono’s hometown of Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in southeastern France / Photo by Phil Richards / Flickr Written late in life, “Le Haut Pays” and “Camargue”—once again paired in the Archip…
- May 26, 2021Ewa Lipska / Photo by Włodzimierz Wasyluk / Culture.pl Released shortly before the death of Adam Zagajewski, Ewa Lipska’s Dear Ms. Schubert (Princeton University Press, 2021) benefi…
- May 11, 2021Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was shown as the premiere when the Forest Theatre in Gdańsk opened in 1911 / Photo by magro_kr / Flickr Anna Frajlich, who recently added to her long…
- April 28, 2021Ghetto Heroes Square in Kraków / Photo by annaspies / Flickr Piotr Florczyk’s From the Annals of Kraków (Lynx House Press, 2020) narrates the searing realization of an almost unnoticed abs…
- March 17, 2021Images courtesy of Italo Lanfredini / italolanfredini.it Invitations The outside brick wall of La Silenziosa, Italo Lanfredini’s house-studio-open-air-museum near Commessaggio, Italy,…
- February 13, 2020Pachamama / Pichincha / Photo by Scipio Rocío Durán-Barba / Photo by Stephen CarlsRocío Durán-Barba is one of the most important voices of Latin American literature today. The author of more than fif…
- November 5, 2019My association with the work of Józef Wittlin started when Professor Anna Frajlich invited me to write a paper about Wittlin’s association with France for her 1996 Józef Wittlin conference at Columbi…
- June 13, 2019Dany Laferrière was elected to the French Academy in 2013. Edwidge Danticat won the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2018 and is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant.…
- March 21, 2019Pierre and Marie Cayol To know Pierre and Marie Cayol is to enter an immediate circle of friendship that reaches far and wide and represents a towering monument of achievements, ties, and ever-wideni…
- September 13, 2018Hélène Dorion / Photo by Maxime G. Delisle - Background photo by Alexas_Photos / Pixabay One of the major themes throughout Quebecois writer Hélène Dorion’s work is her focus on the relationship betw…
- September 6, 2018Falcon photo courtesy of Quentin Dr / Unsplash The Poem to the Poet Erase again! Farther lead this rhythmTo capture the cloud and the ploughshare,Slow is the night that looks throug…
- May 16, 2017Click here to read three poems by Joanna Pollakówna, never before translated into English. Joanna Pollakówna / Courtesy of Alice-Catherine Carls Joanna Pollakówna (1939–2002) authored poems,…
- March 15, 2017Anna Frajlich-Zając / Courtesy of Culture.pl The year 2016 was one of homecoming for famed Polish American poet Anna Frajlich. Recently retired from her position as senior lecturer of Polish language…
- September 13, 2016Zofia and Kazimierz Romanowicz in front of the Galerie Lambert in 1962 / Courtesy of the Archiwum Emigracji, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Toruń, Poland For more, read these four poems by Zo…
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