"When you go, space closes over like water behind you"
Wonderful reading last night of poems by Ivan V. Lalić, read by his translator Francis R. Jones.
Thanks @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Wonderful reading last night of poems by Ivan V. Lalić, read by his translator Francis R. Jones.
Thanks @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
The Taste of Lightning is a new selection of poems by Ivan V. Lalić, one of 20th-century Yugoslavia’s most crucial poets.
‘Lalić’s work…crackles with brilliant, arresting imagery forged by the heat of concentrated thought...' – Celia Hawkesworth, The Independent
‘Lalić’s work…crackles with brilliant, arresting imagery forged by the heat of concentrated thought...' – Celia Hawkesworth, The Independent
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"When you go, space closes over like water behind you"
Wonderful reading last night of poems by Ivan V. Lalić, read by his translator Francis R. Jones.
Thanks @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Wonderful reading last night of poems by Ivan V. Lalić, read by his translator Francis R. Jones.
Thanks @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@worldlittoday.bsky.social has posted my article about the contortions of a #Pushkin museum in a country near the #Ukraine war.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
@aatseel.bsky.social @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
@aatseel.bsky.social @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social
In the Baltics, a Conflicted Homage to Russia’s Great Poet: The Markučiai Manor Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, by Laura Sheahen
“In countries dangerously close to the current Ukraine war, anything glorified during the Soviet era is anathema now—including Russia’s celebrated poet.”
worldliteraturetoday.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
@worldlittoday.bsky.social has posted my article about the contortions of a #Pushkin museum in a country near the #Ukraine war.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
@aatseel.bsky.social @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
@aatseel.bsky.social @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social
My review of new translations of Song dynasty poems:
artsfuse.org/317950/poetr...
@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @victoriachang.bsky.social
artsfuse.org/317950/poetr...
@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @victoriachang.bsky.social
Poetry Review: Shangyang Fang’s "Study of Sorrow: Translations" - The Arts Fuse
We owe Shangyang Fang a debt for bringing the delicacy, obliqueness, and sheer tremulous beauty of these Chinese poems to English-speaking readers.
artsfuse.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My review of new translations of Song dynasty poems:
artsfuse.org/317950/poetr...
@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @victoriachang.bsky.social
artsfuse.org/317950/poetr...
@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @victoriachang.bsky.social
Came across an interesting 2023 poem by Rachel Linton:
...Cassandra marries Sisyphus.
She places the personal ad—
...
OK Cupid doesn’t have a category for
“comfortable with futility.”
The only person she can marry has to know
failure is the only option. ...
www.thesunlightpress.com/2023/08/18/p...
...Cassandra marries Sisyphus.
She places the personal ad—
...
OK Cupid doesn’t have a category for
“comfortable with futility.”
The only person she can marry has to know
failure is the only option. ...
www.thesunlightpress.com/2023/08/18/p...
Poetry by Rachel Linton - The Sunlight Press
"Try deep breathing. Try, yes, sunlight. Try petting a cat. Try prayer. Try poetry." Rachel Linton closes out the week with her two poems, "Classifieds" and "Failed Recipes."
www.thesunlightpress.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Came across an interesting 2023 poem by Rachel Linton:
...Cassandra marries Sisyphus.
She places the personal ad—
...
OK Cupid doesn’t have a category for
“comfortable with futility.”
The only person she can marry has to know
failure is the only option. ...
www.thesunlightpress.com/2023/08/18/p...
...Cassandra marries Sisyphus.
She places the personal ad—
...
OK Cupid doesn’t have a category for
“comfortable with futility.”
The only person she can marry has to know
failure is the only option. ...
www.thesunlightpress.com/2023/08/18/p...
Gary Saul Morson gives specific examples of why the Pevear/Volokhonsky translations of great Russian literature "are a disaster."
"...readers should never choose a translation by P&V if another exists." Testify.
hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
"...readers should never choose a translation by P&V if another exists." Testify.
hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
A Question of Purpose
One must translate the work, not the words on the page. They are not the same.
hedgehogreview.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Gary Saul Morson gives specific examples of why the Pevear/Volokhonsky translations of great Russian literature "are a disaster."
"...readers should never choose a translation by P&V if another exists." Testify.
hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
"...readers should never choose a translation by P&V if another exists." Testify.
hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
From a good poem that @pnreview.bsky.social resurfaced from 1988:
"But eventually there are things
that flesh does not forgive;
now my skin rises against you, rigid,
my body beats you back."
"But eventually there are things
that flesh does not forgive;
now my skin rises against you, rigid,
my body beats you back."
This week from the archive: read three poems by Kate Bowles, published in PN Review 63, September - October 1988.
open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...
open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...
Three Poems by Kate Bowles
PN Review 63, September - October 1988
open.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
From a good poem that @pnreview.bsky.social resurfaced from 1988:
"But eventually there are things
that flesh does not forgive;
now my skin rises against you, rigid,
my body beats you back."
"But eventually there are things
that flesh does not forgive;
now my skin rises against you, rigid,
my body beats you back."
The Fortnightly Review has published my poem "The Country of Bodily Pain."
Thanks @robertarchambeau.bsky.social
fortnightlyreview.substack.com/cp/172105216
Thanks @robertarchambeau.bsky.social
fortnightlyreview.substack.com/cp/172105216
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The Fortnightly Review has published my poem "The Country of Bodily Pain."
Thanks @robertarchambeau.bsky.social
fortnightlyreview.substack.com/cp/172105216
Thanks @robertarchambeau.bsky.social
fortnightlyreview.substack.com/cp/172105216
On a bookish trip to Lithuania, I asked many people about #Dostoyevsky. In most cases, they told me #RussianLiterature classics are anathema.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/rea...
#Dostoevsky #Baltics @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/rea...
#Dostoevsky #Baltics @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social
Reading with the Enemy | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
On a bookish trip to Lithuania, I asked many people about #Dostoyevsky. In most cases, they told me #RussianLiterature classics are anathema.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/rea...
#Dostoevsky #Baltics @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/rea...
#Dostoevsky #Baltics @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social
Wonderful #Orpheus poems translated by Anna Jackson (@flewoutof.bsky.social) at exchanges.uiowa.edu/axbeyond-jac...
I am here
to reverse the death of my wife
if even here, surely, love
has some dominion, here being where
we all, sooner or later, ready or not, will
arrive home.
I am here
to reverse the death of my wife
if even here, surely, love
has some dominion, here being where
we all, sooner or later, ready or not, will
arrive home.
AX25: Orpheus: Two Poems — Exchanges
exchanges.uiowa.edu
July 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Wonderful #Orpheus poems translated by Anna Jackson (@flewoutof.bsky.social) at exchanges.uiowa.edu/axbeyond-jac...
I am here
to reverse the death of my wife
if even here, surely, love
has some dominion, here being where
we all, sooner or later, ready or not, will
arrive home.
I am here
to reverse the death of my wife
if even here, surely, love
has some dominion, here being where
we all, sooner or later, ready or not, will
arrive home.
"The only people Rouault treated without sympathy were judges – a subject he returned to again and again. 'The reason I gave my judges such woeful faces,' he said, 'was doubtless because I expressed the anguish that I myself feel when I see one human obliged to judge another.'"
Georges Rouault’s paintings are full of compassion for the downtrodden – and have a fair bit of sympathy for the devil, too, writes Zachary Ginsberg
The long-suffering subjects of Georges Rouault
The French painter was full of compassion for the downtrodden – and had a fair bit of sympathy for the devil, too
buff.ly
July 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"The only people Rouault treated without sympathy were judges – a subject he returned to again and again. 'The reason I gave my judges such woeful faces,' he said, 'was doubtless because I expressed the anguish that I myself feel when I see one human obliged to judge another.'"
"... in any good translation, poetry is also what's found," says Geoffrey Brock--among others.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/168...
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/168...
Poets on Translation: Otherwise the Same
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
July 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"... in any good translation, poetry is also what's found," says Geoffrey Brock--among others.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/168...
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/168...
My brief poem loosely based on a #haiku by #Buson, recently published in @thelincolnreview.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My brief poem loosely based on a #haiku by #Buson, recently published in @thelincolnreview.bsky.social
@thelincolnreview.bsky.social just published three of my poems, including "Lachrymosa":
lsheahen.substack.com/p/lachrymosa...
lsheahen.substack.com/p/lachrymosa...
Lachrymosa: A Poem by Laura Sheahen
Is your tear the right color/flag-matching
lsheahen.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@thelincolnreview.bsky.social just published three of my poems, including "Lachrymosa":
lsheahen.substack.com/p/lachrymosa...
lsheahen.substack.com/p/lachrymosa...
"be freedom’s intermediary hold the escape rope smuggle the message give the sign." The poetry of #ZbigniewHerbert often reads like a panicked ransom-note job description for artists living under totalitarian regimes.
Here's my review of two Herbert collections: artsfuse.org/312770/book-...
Here's my review of two Herbert collections: artsfuse.org/312770/book-...
Book Review: The Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert -- Mr Cogito’s Insomnia - The Arts Fuse
How should artists live under autocracy? A Cold War Polish poet doesn’t have good answers, but offers chilling advice.
artsfuse.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"be freedom’s intermediary hold the escape rope smuggle the message give the sign." The poetry of #ZbigniewHerbert often reads like a panicked ransom-note job description for artists living under totalitarian regimes.
Here's my review of two Herbert collections: artsfuse.org/312770/book-...
Here's my review of two Herbert collections: artsfuse.org/312770/book-...
Many thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social , editor of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, for promoting my poem "Exorcised Vampire":
www.whaleroadreview.com/sheahen/
www.whaleroadreview.com/sheahen/
May 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Many thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social , editor of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, for promoting my poem "Exorcised Vampire":
www.whaleroadreview.com/sheahen/
www.whaleroadreview.com/sheahen/
One of my poems is in the new issue of Rogue Agent, a journal which focuses on the body.
RA 122 is here! Ft poetry by Amrita Skye Blaine, Sage Cohen, Natalia del Pilar, Dagne Forrest, Jackie Hollowell, @andrewkozma.net Raymond Luczak, Ocean, @kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social and @lsheahen.bsky.social & art by Yvonne Pepin-Wakefield // rogueagentjournal.com/issue122
Issue 122 — RogueAgent
Welcome!
rogueagentjournal.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
One of my poems is in the new issue of Rogue Agent, a journal which focuses on the body.
Two of my poems--"Class for Unlearning Life" and "Self-Made Woman"--in a UK journal:
www.morphrog.com/laura-sheahe...
www.morphrog.com/laura-sheahe...
April 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Two of my poems--"Class for Unlearning Life" and "Self-Made Woman"--in a UK journal:
www.morphrog.com/laura-sheahe...
www.morphrog.com/laura-sheahe...
Van Gogh's #loneliness: My review of a new book on Vincent van Gogh's formative two years in Paris, where his style evolved but no friendships emerged.
Even when the artist was among his peers, he didn't click with them.
newcriterion.com/dispatch/van...
#VanGogh #art #painting #mentalhealth
Even when the artist was among his peers, he didn't click with them.
newcriterion.com/dispatch/van...
#VanGogh #art #painting #mentalhealth
April 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Van Gogh's #loneliness: My review of a new book on Vincent van Gogh's formative two years in Paris, where his style evolved but no friendships emerged.
Even when the artist was among his peers, he didn't click with them.
newcriterion.com/dispatch/van...
#VanGogh #art #painting #mentalhealth
Even when the artist was among his peers, he didn't click with them.
newcriterion.com/dispatch/van...
#VanGogh #art #painting #mentalhealth
One of my poems is in a new anthology about the women's resistance movement in #Iran:
bookshop.org/p/books/wome...
#mahsaamini #zanzendegiazadi
bookshop.org/p/books/wome...
#mahsaamini #zanzendegiazadi
Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution
Poems for the Iranian Revolution
bookshop.org
April 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
One of my poems is in a new anthology about the women's resistance movement in #Iran:
bookshop.org/p/books/wome...
#mahsaamini #zanzendegiazadi
bookshop.org/p/books/wome...
#mahsaamini #zanzendegiazadi
Dostoyevsky read Jane Eyre in Russian while he was in prison--and drew from Brontë's novel for one of his own.
lsheahen.substack.com/p/when-dosto...
#brontë #janeeyre #dostoevsky #dostoyevsky #bronte
#Достоевский
lsheahen.substack.com/p/when-dosto...
#brontë #janeeyre #dostoevsky #dostoyevsky #bronte
#Достоевский
When Dostoyevsky read Jane Eyre
The Russian genius owes a debt to the English one
lsheahen.substack.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Dostoyevsky read Jane Eyre in Russian while he was in prison--and drew from Brontë's novel for one of his own.
lsheahen.substack.com/p/when-dosto...
#brontë #janeeyre #dostoevsky #dostoyevsky #bronte
#Достоевский
lsheahen.substack.com/p/when-dosto...
#brontë #janeeyre #dostoevsky #dostoyevsky #bronte
#Достоевский