a letter to our community from Ilya Kaminsky

The authors assembled in "Crimean Fig" demonstrate they are unafraid to speak up for Tatar language and culture, while simultaneously speaking out against Putin, unwilling to submit.

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Cartographies of Elsewhere, Dispatch 17, Danuta's Flights

“Is it you who keeps asking / Who killed our Gwangju boy?” Wang Jiaxin, translated by John Balcom, meditates on the Gwangju uprising as dramatized in Human Acts by Hang Kang.

This week's poem: Mark Pawlak's 4 poems from “Special Operation," Ukraine

Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poetry is as beguiling, reflective and precise as a thousand fragments of a shattered mirror. The poet is properly suspicious of the ambiguities concealed in all language: “very…

June 18, 2025 – “Choreography is a way of organizing chaos.”

To much of the world, Crimea is mostly synonymous with the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine — once a precious Black Sea resort, the peninsula was seized at gunpoint in 2014 and transformed into a...

"Most of us have a natural field of action, an arena, in which we can assert ourselves and make some difference in the world."

Yuliya Musakovska is an award-winning Ukrainian poet and translator. She was born in 1982 in Lviv, Ukraine, where she lives and works. She has published five poetry collections in Ukrainian, among…

Where do you live?

Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor. Fanny had intended to publish a pamphlet of legal writings by her father, civil rights scholar Mark DeWo…