Texts & Translations

Leyz­er Volf’s ​“Yid­dish Hiawatha”, writ­ten over three days and pub­lished in a roman­ized script.

Oct 12, 2016

A poem about Sac­co and Vanzetti, orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished the day before their execution. 

May 24, 2016

New trans­la­tions of four sec­tions from Mark­ish’s book-length mod­ernist poem. 

May 18, 2016

A new trans­la­tion of Jacob Glat­stein’s 1956 poem about the ​“Qibya affair.” 

Feb 21, 2016

Trans­la­tions of two poems by Yoy­sef Kerler 

Feb 15, 2016

New trans­la­tions of six poems from Sutzkev­er’s 1960 col­lec­tion Oasis.

Dec 20, 2015

Sutzkev­er’s cycle of poems about his child­hood years spent in Siberia: ​“In the light-dark snowed-under / vil­lage of my child­hood in Siberia / blos­soms bloom from shad­ows’ eyes— / count­less quick­sil­ver blossoms…”

Sep 08, 2015

A prose poem from Abra­ham Sutzkev­er’s 1975 vol­ume Green Aquar­i­um. ​“A man with a heavy bag on his back approach­es a dark city in a rainstorm…” 

Aug 12, 2015