Essays & Poems
Essays
The Baffler: Come on now, Boys
Versopolis Review: A Place Far Away from You
Poetry Review: Be a Comfort for Dead Little Girls
Financial Times: Belarus Protesters Surf Emotions of Exultations and Fear
LitHub: Growing Up in the Soviet Union’s Hero City
New York Times: My Country is Under Attack
Criterion Collection: Read and See: Ales Adamovich and Literature out of Fire
New York Times: Svetlana Alexievich’s Chorus of Fire
Poems
Two poems: State of Light, Little Songs
Translation
Summer. Gates of the Body | Galina Rymbu
The Stone of Fear | Julia Cimafiejeva
A Sunny Morning in the Square | Polina Barskova
I Went Sick as a Child | Arseny Tarkovsky
First Days of War: A Report from Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine | Siarhiej Prylucki
Interviews
The White Review: Interview with Valzhyna Mort
NPR: Belarusian Poet's Latest Work Is A Legacy Of Violent Deaths In A Family
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Valzhyna Mort
Poetry Review Interview: Valzhyna Mort - “a spilling voice”
McSweeney’s Short Conversations with Poets
BBC: on protests in Belarus (2020)
Global Voices: ‘This is a partisan movement of a partisan nation': a Belarusian poet reflects on her homeland's turmoil
The Guardian: One language dies every two weeks. How can poetry help?
Words Without Borders. The City and the Writer: In Minsk with Valzhyna Mort
Listen
BBC World Service: Belarus Across the Barricades, part 2