NE Poetry Club member Max Heinegg has released Through Traveler, a 14 song record of poetry adaptations from the public domain and by author permission. Taking poems that speak to the theme of travel and life’s journey, Max Heinegg has, in the words of award-winning poet John Sibley Williams, “recontextualize(d) poems I thought I already knew, returning them to poetry’s musical roots.” The album can be heard on Bandcamp and will be also available on all streaming services soon.

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The eighth volume in the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series, Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow, co-translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella, brings together a selection of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s poetry written over the last four decades. Having established an English language following largely on the merits of a single poem, “We’ll Not Die in Paris,” Bilotserkivets’s larger body of work continues to be relatively unknown. Natalka Bilotserkivets was an active participant in Ukraine’s Renaissance of the late-Soviet and early independence period.

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