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Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Peacock Pie, 1627.

of plume and feathered fame

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:December 13, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

A poem by Gavrilla Derzhavin, translated from Russian by John Hamel and Peter Orte.

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Read more about the article time naive and omnivorous
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, Setting Sun, 1907.

time naive and omnivorous

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:August 16, 2022
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Three poems by Gleb Shulpyakov, translated by Christopher Mattison

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Read more about the article this place gets a lot of crossfire
Mauro Agustin Cruz, Prudence, 2021, courtesy of the artist.

this place gets a lot of crossfire

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:June 1, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Three poems by Maria Galina, translated by Ainsley Morse and Anna Halberstadt

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Read more about the article If you’re spared come evening, go dance
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

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Read more about the article “In the streets of Viy-possessed Kyiv…”
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

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Read more about the article Bombs Over Kharkiv
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.

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Read more about the article mouths identical to mine

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

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Read more about the article Circumference Radio: Issue 9 Mixtape

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.

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Read more about the article nothing matters except having clean hands
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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Read more about the article the house where we lived and died
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
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Two poems by Vladimir Gandelsman, translated from Russian by Olga Livshin and Andrew Janco

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