From Yan Liang: Q & A with JJ Lee

JJ Lee is the author of GG-award nominated non-fiction book The Measure of a Man: A Father, A Son, and a Suit.

Second-Hand Glory: Reading Undersong

Kenneth Radu's visit to Dorothy and William Wordsworth's cottage informs and enlightens his reading (and rereading) of Kathleen Winter's exquisite Undersong.

Riding da Riddim: The Culcha Dancehall Clash, II, by Maurie Alioff

Miley Cyrus’s eyebrow-raising “twerking” is a bland white-bread facsimile of what happens all over Jamaica, every night, when the selectors program hot songs the deejays rap, and partiers dance until dawn.

Rising dancehall queen Tifa at the Montreal Reggae Fest

From Tom Ložar: "It totters when she licks it with her tongue" / Trema se lei con la lingua lo lambisce

Translation is not something we do for the lazy who cannot be bothered to learn the language of the original. Translation is so that you can read a poem you've already read … for the first time again.