Juan Gris, Glass and Checkerboard, 1917. Open access courtesy of The National Gallery.
Lou—loftiness of fuzz
A poem by Igor Bakhterev, translated from the Russian by Jonah Howell and Sofija Popovska
Watercolor from a 16th-Century De Materia Medica, public domain.
days go by and the man is silent
Three poems dedicated to Alexei Navalny
Jessina Leonard, Broken Window Screen.
over such a pale blue backwater
Four poems by Sofia Parnok, translated from Russian by Samuel Proffitt Driver
Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Peacock Pie, 1627.
of plume and feathered fame
A poem by Gavrilla Derzhavin, translated from Russian by John Hamel and Peter Orte.
Max Klinger, Adam from Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III), 1898, public domain.
my lips, and all you’d loved them for
Three poems by Lou Andreas-Salomé, translated by Sofija Popovska
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, Setting Sun, 1907.
time naive and omnivorous
Three poems by Gleb Shulpyakov, translated by Christopher Mattison
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…”
A poem by Osip Mandelstam from The Voronezh Notebooks, translated by John High and Matvei Yankelevich
Vincent Van Gogh, Shoes, 1988. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
nothing matters except having clean hands
A poem by Aleksey Porvin, translated from Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
John Martin, Illustration for Paradise Lost, Book II Line I, 1827
diabolical laughter off‑stage
Four poems by Roman Osminkin, translated from Russian by Helena Kernan