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and gone are the seasons/ dormant under smoke
Florencia Rodriguez Giles, Viaje Inmóvil, 2020, courtesy of the artist, photograph by Pedro Serr.

and gone are the seasons/ dormant under smoke

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:April 20, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Two poems by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver

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In forty years I won’t talk in my dreams
Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Trompe L'oeil of Two Dead Birds Hanging on a Wall, ca. 1672

In forty years I won’t talk in my dreams

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:April 14, 2022
  • Post category:featured/Issue 8/poetry

A poem by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin.

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Bombs Over Kharkiv
Kharkiv, Ukraine: 1 March 2022. View of the ruined city center of Kharkiv.

Bombs Over Kharkiv

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:April 6, 2022
  • Post category:featured/Uncategorized

“Notes from a Kharkivite” by Andrei Krasniashikh, translated by Tanya Paperny.

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Sirens pour dark sound
Remedios Varo, Plant architecture, 1962, public domain.

Sirens pour dark sound

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:March 30, 2022
  • Post category:featured/Issue 6/poetry

A poem by Jan Skácel, translated from Czech by Daniela Kukrechtová.

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who came to power in our cities?
A City on a Rock, style of Goya, 19th century.

who came to power in our cities?

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:February 24, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

A poem by Serhiy Zhadan, translated from Ukrainian by Valzhyna Mort.

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the sacrificial knife in a woman’s hand
Wall painting: ‘Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase,’ last decade of the 1st century B.C., public domain

the sacrificial knife in a woman’s hand

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:February 7, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Three poems by Liana Sakelliou, translated from Greek by Don Schofield

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And how we violated the calm
The Yellow Room, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), public domain.

And how we violated the calm

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:January 30, 2022
  • Post category:featured/Issue 5/poetry

Six poems by Angélica Tornero, translated from Spanish by Krista Ingebretson

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I was so hungry thinking how love used to taste
Odilon Redon (French, Bordeaux 1840–1916 Paris) Etruscan Vase with Flowers, 1900–10, public domain.

I was so hungry thinking how love used to taste

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:January 24, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Five poems by Souad Labbize, translated from French by Susanna Lang

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the wet words would get naked get cold
Odilon Redon, Hallucinations.

the wet words would get naked get cold

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:January 17, 2022
  • Post category:featured/Issue 9/poetry

A poem by Ali Babachahi, translated from Farsi by Marjan Modarres Sabzevari

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penned in by a semi-sick swaying
Woodcut by Heidrun Rathgeb, on show at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London. Copyright Heidrun Rathgeb.

penned in by a semi-sick swaying

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:December 12, 2021
  • Post category:featured/poetry

A poem by Julia Wong Kcomt, translated from Spanish by Jennifer Shyue.

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