Yasha Hain was born into a Jewish family in Soviet Latvia and emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1979. He started writing in 2016. Since then he has published five books of poems, short stories, and novels in Russian. His poems and novels were published in Hebrew and English translations. In 2019, he won the Franz Kafka award in the international literary conference “RosKon 2019”.
The new poetry collection from Wayne Pernu, one of the finest poets writing in English today. This is one of those rare collections that calls to mind the great masters—Donne, Keats, Yeats.
Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience
Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, and nonstop propaganda flows from TV. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere.
A new book of poems by New York poet and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.