“A smiling, diverse lie of face paint and broken dreams.”
The Future of Latin American Fiction
If you're an enthusiast of Spanish-language literature and haven't been following the serialization of Jorge Volpi's essay on "The Future of Latin American Fiction" at Three Percent, you should be.
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Against Capital Punishment
Add Poems to Your Curriculum
Are you familiar with "Teach This Poem"? If not you should be. This organization just won the National Book Foundation's 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize. Their literary social impact mission? Help teachers add poetry to their curriculum; "Each week, The Academy of American Poets emails out a poem along with interdisciplinary information — classroom discussion questions and multimedia offerings like maps, videos, photography, and related reading suggestions. Everything is curated to help teachers incorporate poetry into the classroom experience." Find out more about the prize and the org here.
“If I wasn’t such a deadbeat, I’d learn Greek.”
Recommended Reading: “Ode to Country Music” by Sandra Simonds.