Andrei Gritsman occupies a special place not only in Russian poetry (to be more precise: in poetry in Russian), but also in the Russian-language literary process, which has long since become world-wide. At the same time, Andrei not only writes poetry and essays, publishes a magazine and works ...

Mikhail Feldman was born in 1964 in Moscow. Graduated from MADI. Repatriated in 1991. Laureate of art song festivals, released discs "Ticket to Alpha Centauri" (2005), "Off-road" (2009), one of the authors of the disc "Jerusalem Album". Author of books of poetry, songs and palindromes ...

Daniil Chkonia was born in 1946 in Port Arthur into a family of military doctors. Grew up in Mariupol, lived in Tbilisi, and since 1975 - in Moscow. Since 1996 he has been living in Germany, in Cologne. Graduated from the Literary Institute. Gorky, since 1976 ...

  My bakhytik. As long as this power does not drink blood to its fullest- Not to us dead and not alive, To be a watchman in Moscow. Who is a poet? He's a watchman here. Before him are the fields. The flowers are growing. He's a gardener here. He is a forester. Look how to a tree ...

I worked all day on new material - an interesting and rich conversation with the Russian poet Bakhyt Kenzheev. In the evening I decided to take a break, the FB news feed helpfully threw up a recording of a conversation between my good friend, cultural scientist Solomon Volkov, with very mediocre and undistinguished professional restraint...

Three weeks ago, the Israeli government sent ground troops into the Gaza Strip. The anti-terrorism operation “Unbreakable Rock” has begun. In the first days of the operation, the most frequent question that Diaspora Jews asked their Israeli friends was one, but the most pressing: - “What is really...