poetry | Circumference

Johannes Vermeer, 'Woman Holding a Balance,' 1662 - 1665, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Pretending to agree with people

A poem by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg

Two poems by Humberto Ak’abal, written in both Maya Ki’ché and Spanish, translated by John Oliver Simon

Séraphine Louis, L'arbre de vie, 1928, Musée d'art et d'archéologie de Senlis, France

Six poems by Waly Salomão, translated from Portuguese by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

A poem by Polina Barskova, translated from Russian by Valzhyna Mort

George Lewis, Södertälje Canal, Sweden . Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside.

Three poems by Martin Westman, translated from Swedish by Hildred Crill

Édouard Vuillard, Woman by the Window, 1898.

Three poems by Yang Xiaobin, translated from Chinese by Canaan Morse

Vincent Van Gogh, Shoes, 1988. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A poem by Aleksey Porvin, translated from Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler

The fresco mural Prometheus by José Clemente Orozco in Frary Dining Hall at Pomona College, 1930.

Two poems by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen

Peder Balke, The Stormy Sea, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway, c. 1870.

Two poems by Sister Claudia Lee Hae-in, translated from Korean by Esther Kim and Paige Aniyah Morris

Igor Moritz, Redbreast Road North Corner, 2019. Courtesy of the artist

A poem by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from Italian by André Naffis-Sahely