Pushcart prize poet, translator, and a founding editor of Four Way Books, Dzvinia Orlowsky is author of six poetry collections published by Carnegie Mellon University Press including Bad Harvest, a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Poetry. Her poem sequence “The (Dis)enchanted Desna” was selected by Robert Pinsky
as 2019 co-winner of the New England Poetry Club Samuel Washington Allen Prize.
Stumbling Among Stars Of a despairing world How sweetly and quickly your heart beat.That, I remember. But snowwas already coming from the Dniprosticking to our eyes and glasses,wrapping parks and boulevards with the smell of rumpled wet fur. Let’s walk together, you and I. It’s snowing in Kyiv and Lviv.It’s raining in Lima and Paris.So much that at this late hour we can… Read more →
No love is happiness, especially like this:a face clamped in a handful, lifted upto an impatient, grinning mouth.Maybe you, too, want to avoid the tip of a knife—only the meek, sacrificial, avian soulcan give steel molecules a taste of sweet blood. Every love is unhappiness, especially mine:it stands near the bed like a small half-wit,looking tenderly, asking for harmless comfort.Yet… Read more →