A Hope Abandoned: Navalny’s Death in Twenty Poems
This month’s eloquent short essay, “Hope Abandoned” by the Russian expatriate poet, essayist, and anthologist Julia Nemirovskaya, introduces the homage to Aleksey Navalny in the wrenching elegies by eminent Russophone poets dedicated to his memory. The contributing translators and Julia Nemirovskaya are all members of the Kopilka Project. I am grateful to my friend and former student Irina Mashinski, also
An Interview with Gloria Mindock, Founding Editor and Publisher of Červená Barva Press by Amanda Newell
I'm excited about this interview because I want to know what your secret is and how you manage to do all that you do! You're an incredibly prolific writer, and as the Founding Editor and Publisher of Červená Barva Press, you're deeply engaged with the writing community both in the United States and abroad.On making disorder make sense, on learning the voice of another: Interview with poet and translator David Rigsbee by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Judith Vollmer
On making disorder make sense, on learning the voice of another: Interview with poet and translator David Rigsbee by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Judith Vollmer David Rigsbee’s Watchman in the Knife Factory: New and Selected Poems (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) and his translation of Dante’s Paradiso (Salmon Poetry, 2023) are the most recent additions to an extraordinary body of work.
Wind and Shadows: In Pursuit of a Grandfather’s Story: A Conversation with Tyler Mills by Frances Richey
Wind and Shadows: In Pursuit of a Grandfather’s Story A Conversation with Tyler Mills by Frances Richey In early April, 2024, I met with the poet, essayist and memoirist, Tyler Mills, to discuss her new memoir, The Bomb Cloud, and how it resonates with her poetry collection, Hawk Parable, written on the same subject. They are truly companion books, each
Dispatches From Lviv, A Conversation With Halyna Kruk, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Ali Kinsella, and Chard deNiord
Dzvinia and Ali, your upcoming collaborative book, Lost in Living, featuring translations of Halyna Kruk’s poetry, and for which you've just been granted a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, is set for release in spring 2024 through Lost Horse Press.
