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Hilma Af Klint, The Swan, 1915. Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet.

I had to follow pages of the age

Post author:Helen Hill
Post published:May 10, 2022
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Two poems by Zhawen Shali, translated by Arash Saleh and Holly Mason Badra

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Plate 21 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra): It will be the same. (Será lo mismo.), ca. 1810. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“In the streets of Viy-possessed Kyiv…”

Post author:Helen Hill
Post published:May 4, 2022
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A poem by Osip Mandelstam from The Voronezh Notebooks, translated by John High and Matvei Yankelevich

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
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Two poems by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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