WhitmanWeb: a multilingual gallery

A gallery featuring Walt Whitman’s emblematic poem “Song of Myself," accompanied by commentaries and live readings, in English, Arabic, Chinese, Filipino, French, German, Khmer, Kurdish, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian, and the poet's Civil War writings, in English, French, and Arabic.

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On the long-list for the 2017 Nigeria Prize for Literature are, count'em, four IWP alumni: Seun LARI-WILLIAMS (IWP ' 80 ), Tanure OJAIDE (IWP ' 85 ), Ogaga IFOWODO (IWP ' 00) and Obari GOMBA (IWP '16).
The work of Can Xue (IWP '92), in particular the recent novels Frontier and Vertical Motion (translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping) is surveyed in The New Yorker.
The Inheritance from Mother, the most recent novel by Minae Mizumura (IWP '04), translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter, is reviewed in N Y Times.
The Legend in My Heart (2016), a feature-length documentary directed by Kaitlyn Busbee, with an original score by David Gompper, which covers IWP’s 2014 tour to China to work with differently-abled communities, won the “Best Student Feature Film” award at the 2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival.
The award-winning Malaysian journalist, editor and writer Rehman RASHID (IWP '01) passed away on June 3rd, 2017, in Kuala Lumpur. R.I.P.

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