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Posted on 24 July 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

Tired of bad translations? Put the poetry back into translation yourself! At the Modern Poetry in Translation website, you can read submit your own English translation of a poem, based on a literal translation and sound recording in the original…

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100 years of pacifism 1914-2014

Posted on 28 June 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

100 years ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot in Sarajevo, triggering what H.G. Wells called the “war that will end war”; it wasn’t long before the irony of that phrase was felt. The Oxford English Dictionary has…

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