Category: Russian

• Six Poems by Stanislav Belsky

  you carry inside a bounded blizzard’s radiating gear, motors if abrupt movements impoverish cold it’s possible to feel kind of calm

  Russian

  olga mikolaivna, Stanislav Belsky

• Eight Poems by Maria Petrovykh

  This winter was a vicious one, Ferocious frosts for half a year. Our little town was driven mad As snowdrifts wrapped it to its chest.

  Russian

  Kitty Hunter-Blair, Maria Petrovykh

• Eight Poems by Dmitriy Blizniuk

  reality like a pensive woman winds a strand of hair round a finger. the window is streaked with rain. seems like a bird pattern, long-legged flowing cranes, half-broken stone cattail buildings, rotting waterlily entryways. be sure not to touch anything

  Russian

  Dmitriy Blizniuk, Yana Kane-Esrig

• Anna Glazova

  the bends in the trunk of a mountain pine/ form a face, the roots — eyes.

  Russian

  Alex Niemi, Anna Glazova

• Julia Nemirovskaya

  Better to live backwards:/ it extends your time.

  Russian

  Boris Dralyuk, Julia Nemirovskaya

• Al Panteliat

  we died one day / and death passed by us / we pressed against each other

  Russian

  Al Panteliat, Jennifer Lobaugh