Showing posts with label Russian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian. Show all posts
Monday, February 16, 2026

THE WEEKEND NEWS

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by Bonnie Naradzay     Crouching amid a pile of rubble that used to be his Gaza home, Mahmoud Hammad scoops dirt into a large sieve and shak...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

WE'RE SITTING AROUND A TABLE NOT FAR FROM THE RUSSIAN BORDER

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by Ron Riekki A Chinese artist, a Russian musician, and American poet, and we talk about surveillance, sharing how dangerous it is to be an ...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

SMALL VICTORIES

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by M. Benjamin Thorne Two Russian poets have been handed long jail sentences for taking part in a reading of anti-war poems in Moscow. A Mo...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

HOW NORMAL LIFE IS IN KHERSON!

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by Bonnie Naradzay Russian soldiers have shot dead a Ukrainian musician in his home after he refused to take part in a concert in occupied K...
Friday, April 22, 2022

350 PAGES

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by Thomas J. Erickson i The battle for Madrid [during the Spanish Civil War]… was decided in lecture halls, laboratories, and classrooms at ...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

SEA-TAC AT EASTER

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by Jerry Krajnak Fifty years ago, a boy returned on a drizzly Easter Monday and found no one to curse or kiss him. Holiday decorations peele...
Tuesday, April 05, 2022

WHEN ALL ROADS LEAD TO MONSTERS

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In memory of Boris Romantschenko  1926-2022 by Shelly Blankman I When all roads lead to monsters, where do you turn? Plucked like a stinkwee...
Monday, March 07, 2022

ANTI-WAR RALLY

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A Correspondence by Phyllis Klein, Kathy Les, and Renée Schell KYIV, Ukraine — Makeshift roadblocks have been installed throughout this capi...
Sunday, March 06, 2022

I IMAGINE FIRST LEAVING THE HOSPITAL

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by Ying Wu A wounded 6-year-old girl arrived at a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Sunday. Her mother wept outside the ambulance. Her fathe...
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

KYIV/SAN FRANCISCO

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by Susan Gubernat Tanks roll in again, wheels oiled by the slick substances of nightmare. Across the street, thousands of miles away, the fl...
Friday, February 25, 2022

POEM FOR A RUSSIAN SOLDIER

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by Jesse Dukes Written on the Eve of the Invasion of Kyiv A dead Russian soldier in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit: Tyler Hicks, The New York Time...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

THE INTERPRETER’S TESTIMONY

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by Rebecca Starks
 “I shall be there when the wave has gone by.” –Marianne Moore How to put it . . . I don’t remember, I doodle, I...
Saturday, November 04, 2017

THE EYES OF CHECHEN AUTHORITIES WILL NEVER LET THEM FORGET WHAT THEY HAVE DONE

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by David Hanlon A leading Russian human rights group has expressed “serious fears” that a gay pop star may have been killed in Chechnya...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

MATRYOSHKA DOLL

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by Harold Oberman Lawyers peel off the layers Of suited smiling dolls, The next one smaller, Until they find An orange Infant Tsar....
Friday, January 08, 2016

PUTIN'S STRIDE

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by Bill Petz George W. Bush infamously claimed to have looked into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s eyes and gotten a “sense of his ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

REMEMBER CHERNOBYL

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by B.Z. Niditch We watch the war hawks in the media with reckless rhetoric and historic amnesia getting in their last licks, wis...