Tag: Inkroci 51
Meeting Mark Wingrave: “I’m attracted to what I don’t know”
I came into contact with the artist Mark Wingrave through our shared interest in the work of Ukrainian poet Olga Bragina. Reading a couple...
Lida Yusupova – “video…”
video: a russian soldier in the snow
instead of a face a raw flesh hole
this is russia
instead of a face a hole...
Lida Yusupova
Lida Yusupova is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including her most recent book of poetry, Shutter (Centrifuga, 2021); The...
Olga Bragina – There’s no getting out
there’s no getting out of here since it’s too close to shoot war after peace to grope for your body
among those like us expelled...
Lyn Coffin – on the street below…
on the street below
the tanks rolled on like
congealing lava
you grab the backpack
you prepared a week
ago and add your
mother's antique salt
cellar then rail...
Moulinath Goswami – The Way We Speak
I'll kill you – a person once said
half the audience laughed
and half paled in fear
I pivotted my head along my nape
and nodded sideways –
to...
Olga Braghina – “I don’t see why you must remember 1980s...
I don’t see why you must remember 1980s Kyiv
the white walls the sterile windows of the churches
the empty silence the lines of white bandages...
Stanislav Belsky – 4 haikus
planes scream over the city
the inhabitants poured into the school yard
are we in hell or do we get a pass this time?
над городом ревут...
Yuliya Musakovska – “Who said that the words have no value...
Who said that the words have no value now?
Our words that are being written in the air
with an incandescent iron of breath,
that are clotted...
Yuliya Musakovska
Yuliya Musakovska (born in 1982) is a Ukrainian poet and translator, a member of PEN Ukraine. She is the author of five poetry collections,...