Abdellatif Laabi
Abdellatif Laâbi, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, and political activist, was born in Fez, Morocco in 1942. He was the founder of Souffles, a left-leaning literary review …
Ann Lauterbach
Poet and essayist Ann Lauterbach is the author of ten previous books of poetry and three books of essays, including The Night Sky: Writings on the …
Sylvia Legris
Sylvia Legris is originally from Winnipeg and now lives in Saskatoon. Nerve Squall is her third book of poetry, and in addition to the Griffin Poetry Prize, …
Yi Lei
Yi Lei, born Sun Gui-zhen in Tianjin, China, in 1951, was one of the most influential figures of Chinese Poetry in the 1980s. Sent to …
Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner is the author of seven previous books of poetry and prose, as well as several collaborations with visual artists. The poems in The Lights are in …
Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a …
Tasos Livaditis
Tasos Livaditis (Anastasios Panteleimon Livaditis) was born in Athens in 1922, and had his first poem “The Hatzidimitri Song” published in Elefthera Grammata in 1946. …
Luljeta Lleshanaku
Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in Elbasan, Albania. She is the author of seven books of poetry in Albanian. Book length translations of her work into …
Christopher Logue
Christopher Logue’s War Music: An Account of Books 16-19 of Homer’s Iliad brought him great critical acclaim when it appeared in 1988. Kings: An Account of Books 1 …
Michael Longley
Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939. He has published nine collections of poetry including Gorse Fires (1991) which won the Whitbread Poetry Award, and The Weather …
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Canisia Lubrin
Canisia Lubrin’s books include Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst. Lubrin’s work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the OCM Bocas …