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.
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, Setting Sun, 1907.
time naive and omnivorous
Three poems by Gleb Shulpyakov, translated by Christopher Mattison
Mauro Agustin Cruz, Prudence, 2021, courtesy of the artist.
this place gets a lot of crossfire
Three poems by Maria Galina, translated by Ainsley Morse and Anna Halberstadt
Henri Le Fauconnier, Le Chaucer (The Huntsman), 1911, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest.
If you’re spared come evening, go dance
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…”
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
“Notes from a Kharkivite” by Andrei Krasniashikh, translated by Tanya Paperny.
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
Auguste Rodin, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1887/1893. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum
the house where we lived and died
Two poems by Vladimir Gandelsman, translated from Russian by Olga Livshin and Andrew Janco