mouths identical to mine

• Post author:Elina Alter
• Post published:October 3, 2021
• Post category:featured/poetry/Uncategorized

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

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Circumference Radio: Issue 9 Mixtape

• Post author:Michael Barron
• Post published:August 27, 2021
• Post category:featured/Issue 9/radio

Welcome to the second episode of Circumference Radio.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Francis Alÿs, Paralelas, 1994

the golden age of poetry harmony and freedom

• Post author:Elina Alter
• Post published:March 3, 2021
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Two poems by Dmitry Strotsev, translated from Russian by Ian Probstein

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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

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