Review · May 2026
Review: “Ambivalent Souls”
Venya Gushchin reviews Robert E. Tanner’s Ambivalent Souls for The Brooklyn Rail.
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News & Press
Reviews, interviews, podcasts, excerpts, videos, and events from the Poets & Traitors archive.
Event · 2022
Book Launch: “Ambivalent Souls”
Robert E. Tanner sits down with Val Vinokur to discuss his new work.
Read more →Review · 2026
Review: “Ambivalent Souls”
A review of Ambivalent Souls appeared in Slavic and Eastern European Journal.
Read more →Event · September 7, 2023
Book Launch: Annie Kantar at The New School
A reading and discussion about poetry and small-press publishing with Annie Kantar, Val Vinokur, Johnny Lorenz, and Mia Perez.
Read more →Podcast · September 4, 2019
Podcast: Big Cabbage Radio
David Cheezem and Kenni Linden discuss Olga Livshin’s poems and translations in A Life Replaced.
Listen →Event · 2021
Brooklyn Indie Party
Greenlight Books and CLMP co-host the 12th Annual Brooklyn Indie Party for the Brooklyn Book Festival’s Bookends series.
Read more →Review · October 2018
Brooklyn Rail: Review
The Brooklyn Rail considers the press’s dialogue between translation and translator.
Read more →Review · March 10, 2021
Critics at Large: Review of “Other Shepherds”
Donald Brackett considers Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds and the bridge of words between Kossman and Marina Tsvetaeva.
Read more →Review · 2026
European Folklore Society Review of “Die Alp an sich”
Janin Pisarek reviews Die Alp an sich: Tales from the Sarganserland for the European Folklore Society.
Read more →Review · January 6, 2021
Emma Lee: Review of “Other Shepherds”
Emma Lee reviews Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds and its dialogue with Marina Tsvetaeva.
Read more →Review · October 10, 2018
Iván Brave: Review of “Relative Genitive”
Iván Brave considers the interweaving of original poems and translations in Relative Genitive.
Read more →Review · 2019
Los Angeles Review of Books: “A Life Replaced”
Linda Kinstler reviews Olga Livshin’s A Life Replaced for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Read more →Interview · 2019
Los Angeles Review of Books: Olga Livshin Interview
Joanna Chen sits down with Olga Livshin to discuss A Life Replaced.
Read more →Excerpt · January 4, 2019
Two Iconic Russian Poets, the Couch They Shared, and Me
An introduction and three poems from Val Vinokur’s Relative Genitive.
Read more →Review · 2026
Review: “My Only Crime”
A review of My Only Crime from Swarthmore College’s Sibelan Forrester for The Russian Review.
Read more →Review · April 23, 2026
Review: “Other Shepherds”
A review of Nina Kossman and Marina Tsvetaeva’s Other Shepherds in Tony’s Reading List.
Read more →Podcast · 2019
Podcast: Poetry Off the Shelf
The Populist Soviet Poet: The Life and Legacy of Vladimir Mayakovsky, featuring Val Vinokur.
Listen →Review · December 21, 2020
Reading in Translation: “Other Shepherds”
A review of Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds: Poems with Translations from Marina Tsvetaeva.
Read more →Review · December 24, 2018
Reading in Translation: Review of “Relative Genitive”
Jonathan Stone reviews Relative Genitive and the way Val Vinokur intermixes his own poems with translations of Osip Mandelstam and Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Read more →Podcast · April 15, 2019
Podcast: The Slowdown
Poet laureate Tracy K. Smith reads Johnny Lorenz’s “Postcards from the Labyrinth,” from Education by Windows.
Listen →Review · November 2020
Stanford: Review of “Other Shepherds”
Cynthia Haven looks at Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds and Marina Tsvetaeva’s “doom-eager splendor.”
Read more →Video · 2021
Translating Tsvetaeva
Nina Kossman reads Tsvetaeva and answers questions about Tsvetaeva’s art and work.
Watch →Review · 2020
Your Impossible Voice: Review of “Other Shepherds”
Art Beck reviews Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds.
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