Memory of Sun Memory of sun seeps from the heart. Grass grows yellower. Faintly if at all the early snowflakes Hover, hover. Water becoming ice is slowing in The narrow channels. Nothing at all will ...

MOSCOW -- The Russian opposition is hailing it as modern-day poetry. The top broadsheets are pondering its business potential. And a pro-Kremlin lawmaker is mulling legislation to keep a lid on it, ...

On October 23, 2024, Shamshad Abdullayev, one of the most important contemporary Russian-language poets and founder of the so-called “Fergana School of Poetry” (in fact, there was no “poetry school”, ...

In one of this anthology's briefest poems, Olga Ivanova asks: ""Do I hold the past in my hands / Perhaps / A little too tightly?"" This question drives many of these poems crafted by Russian women ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Bella Akhmadulina, 73, a poet whose verses have been described as among ...

Against the backdrop of the "China-Russia Years of Culture," the "Reading through the Seasons" China-Russia Literature Salon was held by the Global Times and the Russian Cultural Center in Beijing on ...

Still in her mid-30s, Polina Barskova is already considered one of the foremost contemporary Russian poets. Born in 1976 in then-Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), she began publishing her poetry at age ...

Clarence Brown, professor of comparative literature, emeritus, at Princeton University, died in his sleep July 18 after a long illness in Seattle, where he moved after retiring in 1999. He was 86.

CLINTON — The Museum of Russian Icons will remain closed to the public until COVD-19 is under better control in Massachusetts. The museum had previously announced that it would be closed from Dec. 24 ...