Russia

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

mouths identical to mine

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:October 3, 2021
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A poem by Polina Barskova, translated from Russian by Valzhyna Mort

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

nothing matters except having clean hands

Post author:Michael Barron
Post published:August 20, 2021
Post category:featured Issue 9 poetry

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

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:April 9, 2021
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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

Christiane Baumgartner, White Noise, 2013

the tumbling avalanche of patterns, turn around

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 4, 2021
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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
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A poem by Liliya Gazizova, translated from Russian by Nina Kossman

Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2013

every word may end up being your last word

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 3, 2021
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Five poems by Evgeny Stepanov, translated from Russian by Anna Halberstadt

Monika Baer, Untitled, 2003

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

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:March 1, 2021
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A poem by Genrikh Sapgir, translated from Russian by J. Kates

Kai Althoff, Bekehrung, 2002

Every resident of Earth must be represented in close-up

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

A poem by Andrey Filimonov, translated from Russian by Anton Yakovlev