Elena Laptinskaya was born on March 16, 1977, Orsha, Vitebsk region, Belarus. Her family moved from Orsha to Mogilev, and Elena graduated from secondary school and the Mogilev Institute of Finance and Economics in Mogilev. Since 2009, I have been living and working in Minsk on the Belarusian Railway as a senior engineer. Elena began writing poetry in secondary school. In poetry, she values imagery and musicality most of all. Her poems were published in local publications in Belarus as well as in St. Petersburg anthologies such as “Limb” / “Helikon Plus”. Her first poetry collection “Razbg” was published in Minsk in 2010 by Artia Group.
This collection includes poems written in 2020-2023. (Russian edition)
“The Lingering Twilight” (“Сумерки”) is Marina Eskin’s fifth book of poems. (Russian edition)
Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.
A collection of moving, often funny vignettes about a childhood spent in the Soviet Union.
“Vivid picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.” —Booklist
“This unique book will serve to promote discussions of freedom.” —School Library Journal
A book of poems by Maria Galina, put together and completed exactly one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Galina’s seventh book of poems. With translations by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse.
A new collection of poems by Ian Probstein. (In Russian)