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'After the expulsion...' (Kirill Koval'dzhi)

notesofanidealist wrote 2 days ago: After the expulsion of Adam and Eve in paradise there remained not one person! После изгнания Адама … more →

Tags: languages, Best of 2010, Poetry, Russian

'I can't do serious books by now' (Gennady Rusakov)

notesofanidealist wrote 3 days ago: I can’t do serious books by now I write schoolboy verse any old how– in every line the l … more →

Tags: languages, Best of 2010, Poetry, Russian

Women in Russian villages - A poem by "N. A. Nekrasov"

archecotech wrote 3 days ago: This poem is by a famous Russian Poet Being recited by a young Russian girl. Just watching this litt … more →

Tags: life in Russia, Russia, Soviet Union, Russian, Queens, translation, communications, English translation

Jim Patterson: Black Soviet Icon’s Lonely American Sojourn

01varvara wrote 5 days ago: James Lloydovich Patterson speaking with his mother, artist Vera Aralova, in 1975. _________________ … more →

Tags: Russian, Soviet period, Patriotic, Biography, intellectual, History, literature/belles lettres, african heritage, African-American

IN THE EVENING BY ANNA AKHMATOVA

artmuse10 wrote 1 week ago: Русский: Категория:Изображения:Одесса (Photo credit: Wikipedia) IN THE EVENING BY ANNA AKHMATOVA The … more →

Tags: Anna Akhmatova

Postmodernism (Valery Lobanov)

notesofanidealist wrote 2 weeks ago: province priggishly prigov sorokin on a white steed a little green leaf from a fig tree [she is smil … more →

Tags: languages, Best of 2010, Poetry, Russian

Epilogue (Olga Ivanova)

notesofanidealist wrote 2 weeks ago: remain there in that book with a sinking feeling–delirious with that shouting crowd towards sh … more →

Tags: languages, Best of 2010, Poetry, Russian

Fine, thanks. How are you?

rachelsafko wrote 3 weeks ago: “Why do people in America always say they’re doing great?” shouts Ms. Ezersky at o … more →

Tags: Ballet, Diana Vishneva, Eugene Onegin, Marcelo Gomes, Russian culture, Russian Language

“Our Lady of the Sorrows, Our Lady of Vulnerability”-Gregory Orr on Poet, Jane Kenyon3 comments

ileneonwords wrote 3 weeks ago: Poet, Jane Kenyon, died a young woman from leukemia in 1995 at the age of 47. She was a poet who was … more →

Tags: On Significant People, On Happy Birthday, On This Day In History, On Poetry, On Motivation, On quotes, On Movies, Motivation, Inspiration

What is hope ? Connection between a painting and a poem

oaulas wrote 1 month ago: Today is May 9th, the Victory Day for Russia, Ukraine and the other former Soviet countries. Soviets … more →

Tags: Валентина Серова, Жди Меня, Константин Симонов, Ivan Babenko, kharkiv, Kharkov, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Konstantin Simonov, may 9th

If I speak for ...

shamelesswordartist wrote 1 month ago: If I speak for the dead, I must leave this animal of my body, I must write the same poem over and ov … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poetry, writing, Poems, Ilya Kaminsky, Author, Dancing in Odessa, author's prayer

'It may seem, at first glance...' (Igor Irten'ev)

notesofanidealist wrote 1 month ago: It may seem, at first glance That I write verse seeking an advance, Because I only have gain at hear … more →

Tags: languages, Russian, Poetry, Best of 2010, Igor Irten'ev

National Poetry Month: Featured Writer-Olga Godim1 comment

micheleberger wrote 1 month ago: I know newly minted novelist, Olga Godim from the ‘Blooming Late’ group on She Writes. ‘Blooming Lat … more →

Tags: Creativity, Creative Writing, blooming late, Charles Gounod, Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lost and Found in Russia, National Poetry Month, Olga Godim

I'm in Tbilisi

mikhailych wrote 1 month ago: I’m in Tbilisi -Yuri Iofe All damned poets, Will be able to understand this. I wander about Tbilisi, … more →

Tags: Georgia, russian literature, Soviet Poetry, Tbilisi, Yuri Iofe

Endarkenment by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

Jacob Edmond wrote 1 month ago: I am overjoyed that Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s selected poems, Endarkenment, is now officially forthc … more →

Tags: translation, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Poetry, Аркадий Драгомощенко, A Common Strangeness, Александр Скидан, Михаил Ямпольский, Зина Драгомощенко, endarkenment

To what was not (Oleg Chukhontsev)

notesofanidealist wrote 1 month ago: 1955 (addition to the photo) in the park behind the school and the dancefloor you are adjusting the … more →

Tags: languages, Best of 2010, Oleg Chukhontsev, Poetry, Russian

Why can't we live like that?

nataliejabbar wrote 1 month ago: I love this spare gem from the acclaimed Russian modernist poet, Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). “ … more →

Tags: Poetry, National Poetry Month, Poem a Day, Poem, Poems, Poets, russian poets, Anna Akhmatova, russian poems

Life will begin soon (Vyacheslav Kupriyanov)1 comment

notesofanidealist wrote 2 months ago: life will begin soon from the age of 2 (you can already speak but have to listen) from 7 (you can al … more →

Tags: languages, Best of 2010, Poetry, Russian, vyacheslav kupriyanov

No. 22: Don't Leave the Room

hecksinductionhour wrote 2 months ago: Don’t leave the room, don’t make the mistake and run. If you smoke Shipkas, why do you need Suns? Th … more →

Tags: Saint Petersburg, Shipka cigarettes, Don't Leave the Room, Joseph Brodsky


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