2 New Exchange Opportunities for Students
Posted on September 16, 2019
Know any young adults interested in meeting their global peers? We have two new opportunities to share, courtesy of our friends at NCteachmideast:
Egyptian Literature, Now with Audio!
Posted on August 22, 2019
5 Great Poems and Stories from Indigenous Authors
Posted on August 09, 2019
Literature written in indigenous languages on this site includes, from Mexico, the poems Purépecha Mother, Marías Mazahuas, and Nothing Remains Empty, as well as the story Dreams and Memories of a Common Man.
Just Published: Post-Apocalyptic Wales, Uyghur Poems, and More
Posted on August 01, 2019
Sometimes I think it's impossible for someone to be as beautiful and ugly as my mother," comments the fourteen-year-old co-narrator of Manon Steffan Ros's award-winning Llyfr Glas Nebo (The Blue Book of Nebo). The novel, translated from the Welsh and excerpted in this month's issue of Words Without Borders, is in the form of dual diary entries from a boy and his mother following a world-ending war.
Celebrate Peruvian Independence Day with great writing from Peru!
Posted on July 28, 2019
July 28th marks the anniversary of Peru's 1821 independence from Spain. To celebrate, we're re-publishing a post about Peruvian author Marco Avilés, as well as the audio story "Pijo y yo," about Marco's adventures with his dog in their adopted home of Maine.