poetry | Circumference

Per Adolfsen, A Rainy Day by the Stream, 2020. Courtesy of the artist

a dream of nature about itself

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:April 19, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

A poem by Knud Sørensen, translated from Danish by Michael Favala Goldman

John Martin, Illustration for Paradise Lost, Book II Line I, 1827

diabolical laughter off-stage

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:April 9, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

Four poems by Roman Osminkin, translated from Russian by Helena Kernan

Mark Wingrave, Opening and Closing, 2021

a forest-city overruns the parquet floor

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:April 9, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

Two poems by Evgenia Rits, translated from Russian by Mark Wingrave

Francisco Goya, Fight with Cudgels, 1820–1823

pounds of flesh, bile, phlegm, spit, dust

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 10, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

Three poems by Adalber Salas Hernández, translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

Christiane Baumgartner, White Noise, 2013

the tumbling avalanche of patterns, turn around

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 4, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

Three poems by Stanislava Mogileva, translated from Russian by Josephine von Zitzewitz

Gabriele Münter, Interior (Das Interieur), 1908

to be late for one’s flight

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 4, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

A poem by Liliya Gazizova, translated from Russian by Nina Kossman

Francis Alÿs, Paralelas, 1994

the golden age of poetry harmony and freedom

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 3, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

Two poems by Dmitry Strotsev, translated from Russian by Ian Probstein

Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2013

every word may end up being your last word

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 3, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

Five poems by Evgeny Stepanov, translated from Russian by Anna Halberstadt

Sanya Kantarovsky, Untitled, 2017

and not now either

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 2, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

Six poems by German Lukomnikov, translated from Russian by Ainsley Morse

Monika Baer, Untitled, 2003

in New York they have New York, but nothing so beautiful

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 1, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

A poem by Genrikh Sapgir, translated from Russian by J. Kates