I Chernobyl Zone, 1986- Do not believe me. I was not there. I was pulping rotten quinces. I did not know. Just as those who were there did not know. * It was a sacred lie, the lightning rod. The radioactive shock forgotten before it happened. * (Moscow hospital, May […]
Mihaela Moscaliuc talks about the genesis of her poem “Immigrant Model.”
Mihaela Moscaliuc talks about determining the form a poem will take.
“What a waste of space,” you murmur as the train cuts through a cemetery whose halves rest like drowsy wings between two pine forests, then “spooky” as our window zips by faces smiling from porcelain plates glued to crosses. You’ve crossed the ocean to marry me, so I cannot say I knew only one […]
Berenson recalls how once, upon seeing a counterfeit, he felt an immediate discomfort in his stomach, and that is what she feels these mornings, cropped at wrong angles in the hallway mirror, chipped stars in her hair, skin almost translucent— a shade darker before it touches air, the gnawing in her belly thrumming as she […]
Romanian dictators Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu were executed on December 25, 1989, after […]
Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. She is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010); translator of Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015) and Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, forthcoming); and editor […]