A selection of poetry and prose by Pavel Arseniev, including "The Pragmatic Paradox as a Means of Innovation in Contemporary Poetic Speech."

This selection of work by the Saint Petersburg experimental writer and artist Roman Osminkin includes A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, poems, and critical writings. 

I wish to talk today about the poetry and suicide of my friend, a great Russian poet and artist Anya Al’chuk, in Berlin in March 2008. To put it up front: can a suicide be an act of militancy, of militant aesthetics?

I've spent the last three days in bed thanks to whatever seasonal bug is felling professors at the University of Washington.  I am falling further and further behind on my to-do list.  I have, however, been able to read a little.

It snowed yesterday in Seattle.  The locals acted like it was the Second Coming.  I received an avalanche of identical Facebook status updates ("It's snowing!") and the news shows went into wall-to-wall breathless-coverage mode.