apnews.com/article/iraq... who was kidnapped in Baghdad was known for pursuing gutsy, low-budget assignments

RIP John Burns, one of the best war reporters. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We already had the real-world experience of unvaccinated people getting measles, and it's why we invented the vaccine for measles. It's one thing to be a sociopath playing with the lives of others. It's another to be gleefully stupid about it.

On the criminalization of the FBI: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And some new poems: lifeandlegends.com/christopher-...

Thrilled to have this interview out today: lifeandlegends.com/a-teacher-a-...

I am proud of this book review in today;s NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...

This Sunday! Cecilia Woloch and Friends Poetry on Zoom with Dan Murphy. Register via the link below. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Christopher Merrill stepping down after 25 years directing UI International Writing Program www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

Grigor Shashikyan (Grig) from Armenia reading a short story for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Roxana Crisologo Correa from Peru and Finland reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Warren C. Longmire from North Philadelphia reading new poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Yu Yuen Lan from Hong Kong reading an excerpt from her novel, Before I, for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Kazim Ali reading new poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Rajaa al Sanea from Saudi Arabia reading from her novel Girls of Riyadh for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS!! NO COVER!! IOWA CITY!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Agnes Chew from Singapore reading from an essay for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Audrey Cerchiara from the Hudson Valley reading her poetry for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Florencia del Campo from Argentina and Spain reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Tayi Tibble from Aoteatroa/New Zealand reading from a work in progress for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Fion Tse from Hong Kong reading an excerpt from her translation of a novel by Lo Yu for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Tomas Downey from Argentina reading a short story for @UIIWP at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Andra Schwarz from Germany reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Roy Horovitz from Israel reading an essay for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Julia Musakovska from Ukraine reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Devanshi Khetrapal from India reading a short story for the @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Myle Yan Tay from Singapore reading from his new novel for @UIIWP at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... What have we become?

What a disaster: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/a...

Look what just arrived in the mail!

Delighted to read this conversation with Zhang Yueran (IWP 2016): granta.com/never-again-...

Thrilled to have a copy of my old friend Gail Wronsky's dazzling new book:

What can I say?

Today, we want to share a few essential pieces exploring the impact of federal cuts to arts programs and aid programs. First, @clmerrill.bsky.social‬'s accepted speech from the 2025 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... (1)

Today on WWB: read 2025 Ottaway Awardee and IWP director @clmerrill.bsky.social‬ 's remarks from our June 3rd ceremony, which call for us to see these cuts—to USAID and to IWP—as inextricably linked (2). wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Grateful to @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing my remarks upon receiving the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.

On June 3rd, we presented @clmerrill.bsky.social‬ with the 2025 Ottaway Award. On WWB, you can read Tom Sleigh’s laudation, which was read by Alane Salierno Mason. Stay tuned for Merrill’s own remarks tomorrow! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Delighted to have this new book by the great Romanian poet Ana Blandiana, in the elegant translations of Paul Scott Derrick & Viorica Patea. @uiiwp.bsky.social

Join us virtually for the 2025 Ottaway Award ceremony on 6/3, with a laudation by Alane Salierno Mason and remarks from Ottaway winner @clmerrill.bsky.social ! You can also catch a recording on our YouTube channel after. Learn more and RSVP: buff.ly/v5bKFCT

Good news: www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

Announcing “The Art* of Defending Artists 3.0”, a unique programme designed to teach you how to navigate legal frameworks to defend artists.

Required reading: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients More details to follow--stay tuned!

So this happened: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...