Brad Liening's poem "The President of the World Feels Lonely" is up on MPR's State of the Arts blog. If you like it, you can hear much more when Liening and two fellow poets read from their new work at M&Q. They'll be here Thursday, January 27, at 7:30pm. Don't miss them.--David E

The Huffington Post has a quick write-up of Christian Lander's recent appearance in the bastion of whiteness that is Boulder, Colorado. He's on tour, discussing his book new book Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews.Of his hosts Lander said, "The typical Boulder white … Continue reading Christian Lander Calls Boulder "A Halfway House For People Who Want To Move To Canada"

Bill Johnston is a prolific Polish language literary translator and associate professor of comparative literature at Indiana University. His work has helped to bring English-speaking readers to classic and contemporary Polish poetry and fiction. In 2008 he received the Found in Translation Award for his translation of new poems by Tadeusz Różewicz; this book was … Continue reading The Words Beyond the Words