This week we welcome Alex Cigale as our guest author. Alex's English-language poems have appeared in Colorado, Green Mountains, and The Literary Reviews, and online in The Common, Drunken Boat and McSweeney's. His translations from the Russian can be found in Cimarron Review, Literary Imagination, Modern Poetry in Translation, New England Review, PEN America, TriQuarterly, Two Lines, andWorld Literature Today. He is on the editorial boards of MadHat Press, Plume, Springhouse Journal, St. Petersburg Review, Third Wednesday, and Verse Junkies. He is the editor of the Spring 2015 Russia Issue of the Atlanta Review and a 2015 NEA Translation Fellow, for his work on the poet of the St. Petersburg philological school Mikhail Eremin. From 2011 until 2013, he was an Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. You can follow him on twitter @cigalex
Alex Cigale, Guest Author July 13-17
Drawing by Dastan Abaskavov