poetry | Circumference

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

the girl who was smoking

Post author:Michael Barron
Post published:July 28, 2021
Post category:featured Issue 9 poetry

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

Anne Rothenstein, The Black Dog Revisited. Courtesy of the artist

my mistake must have been wanting to communicate

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:July 14, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

A poem by María Lucesole, translated from Spanish by Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman

Auguste Rodin, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1887/1893. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum

the house where we lived and died

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:July 6, 2021
Post category:featured poetry

Two poems by Vladimir Gandelsman, translated from Russian by Olga Livshin and Andrew Janco

the clouds change their music

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

A poem by Nabaneeta Dev Sen, translated from Bengali by Nandana Dev Sen

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