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Henri Le Fauconnier, Le Chaucer (The Huntsman), 1911, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest.

If you’re spared come evening, go dance

Post author:Helen Hill
Post published:May 17, 2022
Post category:featured poetry

Three poems by Yuri Smirnov, translated by Shashi Martynova

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
Post category:featured poetry

A poem by Osip Mandelstam from The Voronezh Notebooks, translated by John High and Matvei Yankelevich

Kharkiv, Ukraine: 1 March 2022. View of the ruined city center of Kharkiv.

Bombs Over Kharkiv

Post author:Elina Alter
Post published:April 6, 2022
Post category:featured Uncategorized

“Notes from a Kharkivite” by Andrei Krasniashikh, translated by Tanya Paperny.

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

Circumference Radio: Issue 9 Mixtape

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

Welcome to the second episode of Circumference Radio.

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

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

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

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