Skip to content
Circumference
  • About
  • Indices
    • Languages
    • Regions
  • Submit
  • Support
  • Shop
  • Toggle website search
Menu Close
  • About
  • Indices
    • Languages
    • Regions
  • Submit
  • Support
  • Shop
  • Toggle website search
Read more about the article now we plummet toward the original spark

now we plummet toward the original spark

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:April 1, 2026
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Five poems from Milo De Angelis' Last Stops of the Night Journey, translated from the Italian by Susan Stewart and Patrizio Ceccagnoli

Continue Readingnow we plummet toward the original spark
Read more about the article half all married, half all virginal
Amrita Sher-Gil, Three Girls, 1935. Open access courtesy of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

half all married, half all virginal

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:March 16, 2026
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Two poems by Amrita Pritam, translated from the Punjabi by Rituparna Sengupta

Continue Readinghalf all married, half all virginal
Read more about the article tides break countless trinkets

tides break countless trinkets

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:March 10, 2026
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Two poems from Modern Woman by Edith Södergran, translated from the Swedish by CD Eskilson

Continue Readingtides break countless trinkets
Read more about the article Lou—loftiness of fuzz
Juan Gris, Glass and Checkerboard, 1917. Open access courtesy of The National Gallery.

Lou—loftiness of fuzz

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:January 29, 2026
  • Post category:featured/Issue 11/poetry

A poem by Igor Bakhterev, translated from the Russian by Jonah Howell and Sofija Popovska

Continue ReadingLou—loftiness of fuzz
Read more about the article I was waiting for my annual toothache all winter
Romain Cazes, Studies of Drapery in Sleeve and Collars. Open access courtesy of The Met Museum.

I was waiting for my annual toothache all winter

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:January 7, 2026
  • Post category:featured/Issue 7/poetry

A poem by Dan Sociu, translated from the Romanian by Paul Killebrew & Dan Sociu

Continue ReadingI was waiting for my annual toothache all winter
Read more about the article Double Vision

Double Vision

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:October 27, 2025
  • Post category:featured/fiction

An excerpt from One, None, and a Hundred Grand by Luigi Pirandello, translated from Italian by Sean Wilsey

Continue ReadingDouble Vision
Read more about the article she blinks quick quick quickly
Paul Ranson, Woman Standing Beside a Balustrade with a Poodle, 1895. Open access courtesy of The Met Museum.

she blinks quick quick quickly

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:August 5, 2025
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton.

Continue Readingshe blinks quick quick quickly
Read more about the article Displeasures and Felicities

Displeasures and Felicities

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:June 5, 2025
  • Post category:featured/poetry

An excerpt from bruno darío's LANTANA OR, THE INDISSOLUBLE EXHALATION, translated from Spanish by Kit Schluter

Continue ReadingDispleasures and Felicities
Read more about the article he is as plain and severe as his task
Vincent van Gogh, Corridor in the Asylum, 1889. Open access courtesy of The Met Museum.

he is as plain and severe as his task

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:May 15, 2025
  • Post category:featured/Issue 10/poetry

From Issue 10, three poems by Najlaa Eltom, translated from Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim

Continue Readinghe is as plain and severe as his task
Read more about the article five apartments
Wall tiles from the funerary apartments of king Djoser, Old Kingdom. Open access courtesy of The Met Museum.

five apartments

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:May 5, 2025
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini

Continue Readingfive apartments
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 11
  • Go to the next page
© 2022. Circumference Magazine—All rights reserved.