Archive
Reviews, interviews, podcasts, excerpts, videos, and events from the Poets & Traitors archive.
Interview · September 2026
Sophie Stephens speaks with Rachel TonThat, Richard Lourie, and Val Vinokur about Die Alp an sich, Little Treasons, Barking at God, literary translation, AI, and the relationship between translation and original writing.
Read more →Review · May 2026
Venya Gushchin reviews Robert E. Tanner’s Ambivalent Souls for The Brooklyn Rail.
Read more →Review · April 23, 2026
A review of Nina Kossman and Marina Tsvetaeva’s Other Shepherds in Tony’s Reading List.
Read more →Review · 2026
Janin Pisarek reviews Die Alp an sich: Tales from the Sarganserland for the European Folklore Society.
Read more →Review · 2026
A review of Ambivalent Souls appeared in Slavic and Eastern European Journal.
Read more →Review · 2025
Sibelan Forrester reviews Richard Lourie’s My Only Crime: Poems, Translations, Lives & Akhmatova’s Requiem for The Russian Review, considering its original poems, translations, literary lives, and Lourie’s rendering of Akhmatova’s Requiem.
Read more →Event · September 7, 2023
A reading and discussion about poetry and small-press publishing with Annie Kantar, Val Vinokur, Johnny Lorenz, and Mia Perez.
Read more →Event · 2022
Robert E. Tanner sits down with Val Vinokur to discuss his new work.
Read more →Review · March 10, 2021
Donald Brackett considers Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds and the bridge of words between Kossman and Marina Tsvetaeva.
Read more →Review · January 6, 2021
Emma Lee reviews Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds and its dialogue with Marina Tsvetaeva.
Read more →Event · 2021
Greenlight Books and CLMP co-host the 12th Annual Brooklyn Indie Party for the Brooklyn Book Festival’s Bookends series.
Read more →Video · 2021
Nina Kossman reads Tsvetaeva and answers questions about Tsvetaeva’s art and work.
Watch →Review · December 21, 2020
A review of Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds: Poems with Translations from Marina Tsvetaeva.
Read more →Review · November 2020
Cynthia Haven looks at Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds and Marina Tsvetaeva’s “doom-eager splendor.”
Read more →Review · 2020
Art Beck reviews Nina Kossman’s Other Shepherds.
Read more →Podcast · September 4, 2019
David Cheezem and Kenni Linden discuss Olga Livshin’s poems and translations in A Life Replaced.
Listen →Podcast · April 15, 2019
Poet laureate Tracy K. Smith reads Johnny Lorenz’s “Postcards from the Labyrinth,” from Education by Windows.
Listen →Excerpt · January 4, 2019
An introduction and three poems from Val Vinokur’s Relative Genitive.
Read more →Review · 2019
Linda Kinstler reviews Olga Livshin’s A Life Replaced for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Read more →Interview · 2019
Joanna Chen sits down with Olga Livshin to discuss A Life Replaced.
Read more →Podcast · 2019
The Populist Soviet Poet: The Life and Legacy of Vladimir Mayakovsky, featuring Val Vinokur.
Listen →Review · December 24, 2018
Jonathan Stone reviews Relative Genitive and the way Val Vinokur intermixes his own poems with translations of Osip Mandelstam and Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Read more →Review · October 10, 2018
Iván Brave considers the interweaving of original poems and translations in Relative Genitive.
Read more →Review · October 2018
The Brooklyn Rail considers the press’s dialogue between translation and translator.
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