Words Without Borders announces the 2021 Poems in Translation Contest, spotlighting groundbreaking work by poets and translators around the world. For contest guidelines and to submit, please click here.Submissions will be accepted through 11:59 pm ET on April 16, 2021. The contest is open to submissions of contemporary international poetry translated from other languages into […]
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