For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Brendan Lanctot is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Beyond Civilization and Barbarism: Culture and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Argentina and articles on contemporary Argentine film and literature.
The ‘beautiful disorder’ of the Forbidden City and the Yuanmingyuan (Garden of Perfection and Light) was first noted by the Jesuit painter Jean Denis...