WSC 2026 Literature and Media

La Sagrada Familia

Spain

Nusantara Capital City

Indonesia

Ryugyong Hotel

North Korea

Wonderland Amusement Park

China

Berlin Brandenburg Airport

Germany

Milan Cathedral

Italy

Crazy Horse Memorial

South Dakota

Lego Parking House

Billund, Denmark

Parc des Celestins

Lyon, France

Michigan Theater

Detroit, Michigan

Garagenatelier Car Park

Herdern, Switzerland

9th Avenue Parkade

Calgary, Canada

Waiting for Godot, Scene 2 (1953)

Samuel Beckett

“Keeping Still” (1958)

Pablo Neruda

I'll Wait for the Next One… (2002)

Philippe Orreindy

“The Man Who Could Walk through Walls” (1941)

Marcel Ayme

A Gentleman in Moscow (Excerpt) (2019)

Amor Towles

“We Real Cool” (1963)

Gwendolyn Brooks

“The Medicine Bag” (1975)

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

“In Mrs. Tilscher’s Class” (1990)

Carol Ann Duffy

“Where Do We Go From Here?” (2001)

Joss Whedon

“Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” (2006)

Karen Russell

“Lost Boy” (2015)

Ruth B

“Let Me Begin Again” (2021)

Major Jackson

“A stone I died” (c. 13th century)

Rumi

“Death Be not Proud” (1633)

John Donne

“Ulysses” (1842)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Because I could not stop for Death” (1890)

Emily Dickinson

“Gitanjali 95” (1913)

Rabindranath Tagore

15th Symphony: Fourth Movement (1972)

Dmitri Shostakovich

“Please Call Me by My True Names” (1976)

Thich Nhat Hanh

“A Letter from Isaac Asimov to his Wife Janet, Written on His Deathbed” (1999)

David Berman

“In the End” (2000)

Linkin Park

“The New Colossus” (1883)

Emma Lazarus

“Prospective Immigrants Please Note” (1963)

Adrienne Rich

“We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra” (1987)

Marilyn Chin

“The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping” (2005)

Adrian Castro

“Mother Country” (2019)

Richard Blanco

“Travelling Again” (761 CE)

Du Fu

“Sonnet 50” (1609)

William Shakespeare

“Sea Fever” (1902)

John Massefield

“Window” (1914)

Carl Sandburg

“The Road Not Taken” (1915)

Robert Frost

“Sailing to Byzantium” (1927)

William Butler Yeats

“The Journey” (c. early 20th century)

Rustu Onur

“This Only” (1988)

Czeslaw Milosz

“Just Drive” (1992)

Richard Russo

“Vacation” (1994)

Rita Dove