World Literature Today Podcast

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Host Sonja Srinivasan welcomes our audience to the World Literature Today podcast with interviews of Yana Kane and Mika Seifert, a poem read by Brandon Som, a short round of trivia, and more!

Episodes

  1. Oct 7 ·  Bonus

    WLT Podcast Special - An Interview with US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze

    In this special episode of the WLT Podcast, Sonja chats with 25th U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze about poetry and translating poetry as “an invitation to global literary citizenship.” They discuss his most recent published works—Into the Hush (2025) and Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry (2026)—his circuitous “path to poetry”; key mentors like Denise Levertov and Josephine Miles; hitchhiking from Boston to Berkeley to Santa Fe; influences from the Tang dynasty to C.D. Wright; teaching poetry in schools, reservations, and prison settings in New Mexico; writing in a “dream state”; and much more.

  2. Sep 21

    WLT Podcast (S1, E5) Daniel Simon on Magazine's Centennial

    It’s WLT’s centennial, and in this fifth episode, host Sonja Srinivasan speaks with WLT editor in chief Daniel Simon about WLT’s history, Jaspreet Singh reads a poem, and more. Who are some of Daniel’s favorite writers? What’s at “the heart of WLT’s DNA?” What’s “the mom test”? All this and more!

  3. Jul 31

    World Literature Today Podcast (S1E4)

    How can studying biology lead to poetry? How does literature bring people together in times of war? Go beyond the pages of WLT in the World Literature Today podcast, hosted by Sonja Srinivasan.In this fourth episode, Sonja speaks with two contributors to the July issue—Haleh Liza Gafori and Ayelet Tsabari. Gafori reads from her translations of Rumi’s verse, Sonja highlights three book reviews from the issue, and you can test your knowledge of the July issue with a few trivia questions.

  4. Jun 5

    World Literature Today Podcast (S01E03)

    Episode #3 – Host Sonja Srinivasan interviews two contributors to the May issue—Lana Abdel Rahman and Carlos Labbé—while Suzana Vuljevic reads her translation of a poem by Arbër Selmani, Sonja highlights three book reviews from the issue, and you can test your knowledge with a few trivia questions.

  5. Apr 28

    World Literature Today Podcast (S01E02)

    Anthologies as portable libraries, finding books in unlikely places, the value of skepticism, and more. Go beyond the pages of WLT in the World Literature Today podcast, hosted by Sonja Srinivasan. In this second episode, Sonja speaks with publisher of Restless Books and frequent WLT contributor Ilan Stavans, Joseph O. Legaspi reads his poem from the March issue, and you can test your knowledge with a few trivia questions.

  6. Feb 27

    World Literature Today Podcast (S01E01)

    Host Sonja Srinivasan welcomes our audience to the World Literature Today podcast with interviews of Yana Kane and Mika Seifert, a poem read by Brandon Som, a short round of trivia, and more!

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Host Sonja Srinivasan welcomes our audience to the World Literature Today podcast with interviews of Yana Kane and Mika Seifert, a poem read by Brandon Som, a short round of trivia, and more!

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