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            On 17 October 1905, the Russian emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, seemed to bow to an ongoing revolt by issuing a manifesto which offered civil rights, voting, and other trappings of constitutional order. It was not long, however, before a violent crackdown began. Right-wing militias and...Read more

First the translator begins, bit by bit, to discover the poet’s verbal and ideational habits; then, little by little, the translator acquires the poet’s obsessions. . . . Next the translator is certain he or she inhabits the poet. . . . And at last, the translator turns into the...Read more

In his short essay “The Difficult Poem,” Charles Bernstein outlines “a handy checklist” to aid in the diagnosis of a difficult poem:

1. Do you find the poem hard to appreciate?

2. Do you find the poem’s vocabulary and...Read more

On December 4, 2020, Ali Ayman Abu Alayya, a Palestinian teenager who was turning fifteen that day, was shot in the stomach by an Israel Defense Forces sniper during a protest near his home village in the West Bank. He later died of his wounds. His death was quickly condemned by the United...Read more