Barnard College
Russian
Comments on Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych, translated by Larissa Shmailo, and edited and with a critical and historical introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky
Published in Vol. 1, Issue 4 of The Battersea Review
A poem of Ishmael the outcast, forthcoming in the Everyman Library/Random House anthology of metrical verse, Measure for Measure.
Variation on ghazal form with refrain
Published in the Drunken Boat blog 2013
An acrostic poem by Nikolai Gumilyev on the name of his wife, Anna Akhmatova. This translation received honorable mention in the 2011 Compass Award competition.
Leonard Schwartz interviews me for Cross-Cultural Poetics on PennSound. Topics include my poetry collection #specialcharacters, my translations of Aleksei Kruchenych, and why Russians read poetry and American don't.
Photos from the Boston University production of Larissa Shmailo's translation of Victory over the Sun, the First Futurist Opera by Aleksei Kruchenych. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Ballets Russes Initiative,... more
A critical analysis of Schwartz's book-length poem, an exploration into the subjunctive of the imagination.
Shmailo reads about witches, magic, Lermontov, and the Holocaust.